The five-year, dual-degree program in engineering and the liberal
arts/sciences is offered by the School of Engineering in cooperation
with the following liberal arts colleges: Douglass College, Livingston
College, and Rutgers College. (Students also may begin the five-year
program at the Camden College of Arts and Sciences or the Newark
College of Arts and Sciences. See Transfer Programs with Camden and
Newark later in this chapter.) The five-year program leads to a
bachelor of science degree in any of the engineering curricula listed
at the beginning of this chapter and a bachelor of arts or bachelor of
science degree in any major offered by the cooperating liberal arts
college. Students interested in the five-year program may apply
prior to their first year to one of the liberal arts colleges under
whose jurisdiction they remain for the first two years. Transfer to the
School of Engineering at the end of the second year is not automatic;
students' records are reviewed at the end of the third term by the
School of Engineering. After acceptance, students come under the
academic jurisdiction of the School of Engineering for the remaining
three years of the program. Alternatively, students in the four-year
program may apply to a liberal arts college after their first year and
prior to their final year for admission to the program.
In all
five-year curricula, the engineering portion of the program for the
first two years is common. Selection of a particular engineering field
of study is made at the end of the second year. After transferring to
the School of Engineering, students remain affiliated with their
liberal arts college for student services and continue to be
responsible for completion of that college's requirements for the B.A.
(or B.S.) degree. Both degrees are conferred at the end of the fifth
year. The program requires that both degrees must be conferred at the
same time even if requirements for one degree is completed before the
other.
