McMurry-UND Dual Degrees
Dual-Degrees Offered Through the Partnership with the University Of North Dakota
Through a collaborative agreement with the University of North Dakota (UND), McMurry University students now have a unique opportunity to earn an engineering degree in Chemical, Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) while completing the majority of their classes on McMurry University campus in Abilene. In the course of the five-year program McMurry University delivers foundational courses in physics, chemistry, math and some introductory level engineering courses, while UND provides upper division engineering courses through the distance learning.
Advantages of McMurry-UND Engineering Program:
At the end of the five-year program a student will receive not one but two Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees.
Students majoring in Engineering Physics at McMurry University will be able to earn Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering degree from the UND.
Students majoring in Physics with Electrical Pre-Engineering focus at McMurry University will be able to earn Electrical Engineering degree from the UND.
Students majoring in Chemistry at McMurry University will be able to earn Chemical Engineering degree from the UND.
Employers want engineers who are capable to go beyond solving standard text-book problems, who possess intelligence, imagination and integrity combined with strong moral character, good communication and team-building skills. This can be achieved through solid foundations of the liberal-arts education acquired in a small faith-based college combined with ABET-accredited professional preparation in the larger highly-ranked university.
Individual attention is given to each student. In a typical engineering program at a large university students are often taking foundational courses in huge classes of several hundred people and many of them will not go past that point, since these classes are not designed to fit individual student needs. Here we make sure that each of our students will get individual attention and all the necessary preparation to move to the next level of specialized engineering subjects.
Both schools will provide students with high levels of advising support. McMurry students are not just taking classes at UND, they are treated as a full time students.
Students are getting much broader education compared to one they would have gotten by completing a standard engineering degree. That would open up more career paths to these graduates including graduate programs in physics, chemistry or engineering as well as employment in technical fields and teaching. A typical engineering preparation is very much focused on a single engineering field, while having additional physics or chemistry background would allow for easier transitions from one engineering field to another in case if future career paths would require such a transition.
Job outcomes for engineering graduates are very lucrative. Participants of the dual degree program can take advantage of career services in both schools. McMurry University is #1 in the State of Texas for highest percentage of graduates with jobs 10 years after graduation by Zippia. UND has 97% job placement rate.
Students are still getting real college experience complete with sports, clubs and interaction with peers even when they take online courses from UND. UND has very deeps experience with online education. At the same time students are still receiving assistance from McMurry faculty.
Additional details on the dual degree program including degree plans are available here.