Degree Requirements

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A MS student with a Graduate Research Assistantship is required to be a teaching assistant in one assigned Crop Science course. For eligible TA assignments as indicated by the DGP, enroll in 1 credit hour of CS 685 Master's Supervised Teaching during the teaching semester.

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Students can also register for CS 695 Master's Thesis Research but should only register for this course when writing your thesis. 

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Students can earn additional credits in CS 693 Master's Supervised Research, if recommended by your Advisory Committee. Those additional credits will count toward the Additional Courses requirement. 

Additional Information

• The MS Advisory Committee must include 3 graduate faculty members at NC State. The Chair or co-Chair must be a full graduate faculty member in Crop Science. An employee of the USDA may be a committee member or co-Chair, but not a sole Chair. 
• All courses counted toward the degree must be NC State or inter-institutional courses. At least 18 hours must be letter-graded with grades of C- or better (grades below B must be rare). Other S/U courses must be graded ‘S, satisfactory’. 
• Upon Advisory Committee and DGP approval, up to 6 credit hours from relevant NC State 400-level courses that were graded B or better may be used. Any 400-level courses included must: not have CS prefixes; be graded B or better; and not have been used to fulfill undergraduate requirements.
• You may not count CS 688/CS 689, CS 690, CS 696, CS 699 towards the 30 hours required for the MS degree.
• A maximum of 6 years is allowed to earn the MS degree. 
• An NC State cumulative GPA of 3.000 or better is required for graduation.

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