To Students Admitted with Restrictions

If you are already admitted to the MS program in Computer Science at the University of Missouri St. Louis, big congratulations. We will be thrilled to have you here, as we offer a robust and flexible MS program with multiple options as noted on the program page http://www.umsl.edu/cmpsci/graduate-studies/ms-compsci.html. You may also find other useful information on this page http://umsl.edu/cmpsci/graduate-studies.

If you received a restricted admission for an academic reasons (you are missing some foundations or have too low GPA), those are generated by the department. Other restrictions may be for other reasons such as missing official documents, you will just need to finalize the paperwork with either the graduate school or the UMSL Global office as the department is not involved.

If your restriction is about GPA, you do not need to do anything other than fulfill the GPA requirement.

If your restriction mentions courses, it means that we could not assess from your transcripts and other documents in your application package whether you have all the necessary background as seen in graduate-studies/admission-reqs - the foundation topics are mapped to the courses listed in your restriction.

You have several options for addressing each restriction:

1. If you have had a similar course but you believe we were not able to assess it properly (possibly because of a generic course name) you may provide more information on the course such as course description, syllabus, textbook, projects, etc.
   With this information, you contact the program director or advisor (if you already received a designated adviser) and we will assess, and if warranted we would remove the restriction. If necessary, we may need to have a live conversation. You may also do this with your advisor after arrival, as most restricted students do.
2. If you didn’t have a single relevant course but you believe you have the knowledge from multiple courses, experience, or self-study, you again contact the graduate director or advisor with all relevant information, before or after arrival, and we would assess this information – this would likely involve a live chat.
3. If you do not have this knowledge but you can gain it before arrival (could be a course or self-study), we can assess your level upon arrival and if warranted we would remove the restriction.

In either of the above cases, you should contact your program director, listing each course/foundation area you have restriction, and for each of these explaining how you feel you satisfied it. You may do this as soon as you get admission, or after arrival here, but preferably before trying to sign up for courses. If you do not reach out, or we do not waive your restriction, you would be required to complete the noted course(s) here in the first semester and no later than in the first two semesters. Since they are below 4xxx level, you need to pass them (as noted) to satisfy the restriction but the credit would not count toward your required MS degree.