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Engineering

Advisors: Clayton Gearhart (general), Richard White (chemical), J. Andrew Holey (computer science)

Saint John's and Saint Benedict's offer students the preparation for entrance into the various fields of engineering. The following options are available:

  1. Students may attend Saint Benedict's or Saint John's for three years and then transfer to a school of engineering, earning a bachelor's degree from Saint Benedict's or Saint John's and a bachelor of science in engineering from the engineering school. To be eligible for a degree from Saint Benedict's or Saint John's, students must earn all core curriculum credits and complete three full years in their major (as determined by each department) before transferring to the engineering school. When appropriate credits are transferred back from the engineering school, a degree will be granted. Details should be worked out with the chair of the selected department by early in the junior year. (This dual-degree program takes about five years and has been formally arranged with the University of Minnesota and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. It also works well at other universities.)
  2. Students may stay at Saint Benedict's or Saint John's for two years, earning liberal arts credits and science and math credits appropriate to their planned engineering program and then transfer to a school of engineering to complete work for their engineering degree. In this case the student does not receive a degree from Saint Benedict's or Saint John's.
  3. Students may attend Saint Benedict's or Saint John's for four years and earn a bachelor's degree in one of the sciences or mathematics and then go to an engineering school (graduate or undergraduate) to earn an engineering degree.
    It is also possible to transfer to an engineering school after one year at Saint Benedict's or Saint John's, but the colleges' liberal arts curriculum is not arranged to encourage this option.