Undergraduate courses may be taken for graduate credit while a student is matriculated in the program. They are taken only when no comparable graduate courses are available within the Rutgers University system and only under the guided supervision of the student's faculty adviser or program director. Undergraduate courses to be taken for graduate credit must be reviewed and approved by the faculty adviser and by the program director. The faculty adviser supervises the writing of a paper that integrates the material in the undergraduate course with the coursework taken under the student's area of concentration. In general, no more than 3 credits of undergraduate coursework taken while the student is in the graduate program may be applied to the graduate degree. A form is available from the Office of Student and Academic Services. When registering, the student must insert a G prefix before the course number in order to receive graduate credit. Students who have taken an undergraduate course without the G prefix will find that the transcript indicates the course does not count toward their graduate degree.
