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Be a Badger. Be a better engineer.
UW–Madison’s accelerated master’s degrees are for engineers who want advanced technical expertise to pursue challenging careers. Benefit from a course-based curriculum and tailor your experience to your personal interests and professional goals. Choose from a variety of specialized engineering degrees and graduate into a career where you can do more interesting, meaningful work.
Choose from 11 programs that allow you to focus on your area of interest
Complete your master’s in as little as 12-16 months so you can put your knowledge to work right away
Stand out with an advanced degree from one of the country’s top graduate engineering programs
Earn more with your graduate degree — engineers with master’s degrees earn an average of 22 percent more than engineers with bachelor’s degrees*
The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering’s graduate programs are top-ranked among U.S. public universities by U.S. News & World Report
Explore accelerated engineering programs at UW-Madison
Master’s degree
Biomedical Engineering: Accelerated Program MS
Combine the fundamentals of the biomedical sciences with advanced engineering methods. Focus your degree and choose from a variety of specializations including biomaterials and tissue engineering, biomechanics, biomedical imaging, neuroengineering and more.
Biomedical Engineering: Biomedical Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship MS
Break into a biomedical career at the interface of engineering and business. Offered in cooperation with the School of Business, this program will advance your skills in design, prototyping, and manufacturing as well as general business fundamentals, entrepreneurship and project management.
Civil & Environmental Engineering: Professional MS
Benefit from a comprehensive curriculum and choose a specialization to deepen your expertise and address the world’s pressing infrastructure needs. Specializations include construction engineering and management; environmental science and engineering; geological/geotechnical engineering; structural engineering; transportation engineering; and water resources engineering.
Electrical & Computer Engineering: Professional MS
Elevate your career and gain practical skills in diverse areas of electrical and computer engineering. Specialize in one of nine areas including semiconductors, networking and security, computer architecture, power electronics and more.
Electrical & Computer Engineering: Machine Learning & Signal Processing MS
In the Electrical & Computer Engineering: Machine Learning & Signal Processing MS program, you’ll delve into topics that help you tackle real-world problems in information processing and apply data-driven innovation to cutting-edge technology.
Materials Science & Engineering: Materials Engineering MS
Push the boundaries of materials science with the Materials Science & Engineering: Materials Engineering program. Delve into cutting-edge topics like nanomaterials, artificial intelligence and semiconductor design to engineer the future.
Advance your career in aerospace engineering with the Engineering Mechanics: Aerospace Engineering MS program. Through coursework and projects, you’ll gain expertise to push innovation in the aerospace industry.
Industrial Engineering: Human Factors & Health Systems Engineering MS
Apply engineering to improve healthcare with the Industrial Engineering: Human Factors & Health Systems Engineering MS program. You’ll develop skills in health system analysis and human factors design to make a lasting impact on health care.
Industrial Engineering: Systems Engineering & Analytics MS
Be prepared to meet the strong market demand for engineers who have mastered analytical tools and can transform data into insights. You’ll gain expertise in optimization models and methods, applied industrial analytics, simulation modeling, and analysis.
Fast-track your mechanical engineering career. Through this intensive program you’ll learn about core areas such as: Biomechanics, computation and data-driven engineering, energy systems, advanced manufacturing, mechanics, and robotics, controls and sensing.
Mechanical Engineering: Modeling & Simulation in Mechanical Engineering MS
Master the art of virtual engineering with the Mechanical Engineering: Modeling & Simulation in Mechanical Engineering MS program. You’ll be equipped with advanced computational tools for simulating robot motion, heat transfer, fluid dynamics and other areas of interest to mechanical engineers.
Become an innovative leader with the Design + Innovation MS program. Through a blend of theory, hands-on projects, and courses, you’ll master advanced design thinking methodologies to bring innovative ideas to life.
The accelerated format and ability to carry up undergraduate coursework allowed me to complete the program in two semesters. The master’s program is much more flexible than undergraduate programs in really allowing you to explore your interests.
Tim Madigan
Biomedical Engineering: Accelerated Program MS
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*UW–Madison Academic Planning and Institutional Research Dataviz (in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau and the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science.) Percent increase identified by comparing median salaries of engineering bachelor’s and master’s graduates one year after college.
