RIT - Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering Technology | MSTET

MS in Telecommunications Engineering Technology

Bridge Programs

A. Student with a recent B.S. Degree in Business and no experience in the telecommunications industry
This student should have taken courses in calculus, statistics, and economics and would be able to complete the six core courses, the two technical electives in the area of Network Engineering and any of the management courses. Students that do not have the math prerequisites would be required to take the RIT undergraduate courses in Data Analysis and Calculus I for Technologists. These students may want to take the undergraduate courses in Telecommunications Fundamentals, Signaling, Transmission and Switching and the voice communication laboratory. These students may not have the prerequisites to take technical elective courses in the areas of fiber optic telecommunications and wireless technology. Students who have taken undergraduate courses in physics could complete technical electives in the area of fiber optic telecommunications.

B. Seasoned Telecommunications Professional with a B.S. degree in Business
This student may elect to replace one or two of the core courses with technical elective courses in the area of Network Engineering and would be able to complete any of the management courses. These students may want to complete the courses in statistics or calculus before they take the core courses for the MSTET program. These students may not have the prerequisites to take technical elective courses in the areas of fiber optic telecommunications and wireless technology.

C. Student with a B.S. degree in Computer Science
This student usually has taken undergraduate courses in statistics, probability, calculus, and differential equations and may elect to replace the core course in Operating Systems with one of the technical elective courses. Students who have also taken undergraduate courses in physics could take the technical elective courses in the area of fiber optic telecommunications.

D. Student with a B.S. Degree in Information Technology
Students with a degree in Information Technology that have not taken courses in statistics, probability, and calculus would need to take these courses before they complete all of the core courses. Students who don’t have industrial experience in telecommunications should take undergraduate courses in Telecommunications Fundamentals, Signaling, Transmission and Switching, and the voice communications laboratory. These students may not have the prerequisites to take technical elective courses in the areas of fiber optic telecommunications and wireless communications. A student who has completed a year of physics with a laboratory at the undergraduate level would have the prerequisites to complete the technical elective courses in fiber optics telecommunications.

E. Student with B.S. degree in Mathematics, Physics, or Chemistry
Students without industrial experience in telecommunications should take undergraduate courses in Telecommunications Fundamentals, Signaling, Transmission and Switching, and the voice communications laboratory. These students have the prerequisites to take technical elective courses in the area of fiber optic telecommunications if they completed a year of physics with a laboratory at the undergraduate level. Students with industrial experience in telecommunications should be able to complete any of the core or technical elective telecommunications courses in the program.