Admission Requirements to MS Electrical Engineering, for Domestic Applicants

Your Graduate Coordinator is Professor Wayne Pilkington (Email: wpilking@calpoly.edu). Please contact him with any additional questions about applying to this degree program.

The deadline for completing your application appears below. All parts of your application must have arrived at Cal Poly by the date shown. Note that you are strongly encouraged to submit your materials well before this nominal deadline. This is especially true for fall quarter applicants in order to avoid conflicts with summer vacations and where financial aid is involved.

Filing Due Dates for each Academic Quarter
To Start Your
Program in:
File Must be
Completed by:
Summer Applications not accepted
Fall July 1
Winter Nov. 1
Spring March 1

Your completed application must include the following:

  1. A formal application made through CSU Mentor (on-line or using a downloaded application form)
  2. Official transcripts from ALL colleges previously attended (except Cal Poly), mailed to: Cal Poly, Admissions Office, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
  3. Scores from the General Test of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), sent directly to Cal Poly using institution code 4038. Current or recently graduate Cal Poly students may contact the Graduate Coordinator to request that this requirement be waived.
  4. Three letters of recommendation from faculty members on institutional letterhead, addressed to: Graduate Coordinator, Electrical Engineering Dept., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407. Letters from professional supervisors or mentors may also be accepted with prior agreement. The program does not use a standard recommendation form.

For additional details regarding graduate admission and other requirements, download the Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Handbook.

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Katy
Davis
M.S. Engineering
2006
“After graduating from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s of arts degree in education, I decided to pursue my interest in engineering.

The hands-on, learn by doing philosophy coupled with a ranking at the top of the list of state engineering schools attracted me to Cal Poly. It has been wonderful.