An Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP) allows a student to begin accumulating credits towards completion of a UNCG master's degree while still enrolled as an undergraduate. Upon successful completion of the baccalaureate degree and AMP requirements, applicants are recommended for direct admission by the corresponding graduate program. These graduate-level courses will count towards both the baccalaureate degree and the graduate degree; the grades will be recorded on both transcripts.

Graduate Program Directors may nominate undergraduate students to the AMP after the completion of 60 credit hours with at least 30 of these credits at UNCG. Minimal criteria for admission to any AMP will include a UNCG cumulative undergraduate GPA of at least 3.5.

The student must be approved for the AMP through the Graduate School. To ensure a timely decision and access to course enrollment, students must be approved to participate in an Accelerated Master’s Program and submitted to the Graduate School by July 1 for Fall AMP course enrollment, November 15 for Spring enrollment, and April 1 for Summer enrollment.

International students who are nominated admitted into an Accelerated Master’s Program should work with the Graduate School and the Global Engagement Office to apply for a visa extension.

All AMP students are considered to be undergraduate students until the conferral of the baccalaureate degree, which requires an application to graduate from the baccalaureate program. No more than 12 graduate-level credit hours taken as an undergraduate may be applied toward both the undergraduate degree and the graduate degree. To be able to apply these credits towards the graduate degree, students must achieve grades of B or higher in the courses.