Semester 2 Courses

It is all students' responsibility to ensure that the courses they register for do not have conflicting schedules with each other. Before registering for any courses, students must refer to the schedule below to ensure that they are able to attend all compulsory synchronous course activities (including course assessments) and these activities do not clash with the schedules of their other registered courses. Please note that the course coordinator reserves the right to not provide alternative arrangements for students who are absent from course assessments due to conflicting course schedules or other non-valid reasons. For such cases, students will receive zero marks for the respective assessment component.

The schedule below excludes all asynchronous or optional course activities such as pre-recorded lectures, take-home assessments and consultation sessions. Please refer to the respective course sites on NTULearn for the schedules of these course activities. For courses with pre-recorded lectures, students are expected to access the learning materials on ATLAS (via NTULearn) and conduct self-paced learning at their convenience.

All course activity schedules may be subject to change at the discretion of the course coordinator. Students are advised to refer to the respective course sites on NTULearn regularly for the latest updates on the course activity schedule, if any.

Coursework Students – Master of Science (MSE)

A. Coursework Requirements

B. Course Load
The following are the prescribed course loads for students in the MSE coursework programme:

Coursework students are not allowed to overload (register for courses with total AU that exceed their prescribed course load in a semester).

Coursework students who are applying for the Coursework and Dissertation study option in their first semester of study must register for 15 AU (full-time students) or 9 AU (part-time students) of courses in the same semester.

MSE coursework students are able to register for postgraduate courses offered by MSE only. The option to register for courses offered by other schools or programmes is not available to MSE coursework students.

Research Students – Doctor of Philosophy (MSE) & Master of Engineering (MSE)

A. Coursework Requirements

^F Applicable to full-time international PhD students who attained their qualifications from non-English medium universities.
^G Applicable to full-time PhD students.
^H Applicable to all research students admitted in AY2023-2024 and beyond.
^I Applicable to all PhD students admitted in AY2024-2025 and beyond.

B. Course Waiting List
During the course registration period, all course registrations^J submitted by research students will be placed on the waiting list and will only be confirmed after the end of the course registration period. All students will be notified of their confirmed courses via an email notification from the Office of Academic Services on 27 Jan 2025 (Mon).

MSE research students are given priority on the waiting list for the enrolment of MSE courses. However, please note that course enrolment is still highly dependent on the available course vacancies, which may not be expanded at the discretion of the course coordinator. Hence, it is not guaranteed that you will be able to enrol on your registered courses with the given priority. This is especially so for oversubscribed courses as the chances of students being enrolled on these courses will be low.

C. Course Load, Overloading, and Preference Rankings
The prescribed course load for all MSE research students is three courses^J (regardless of AU) per semester. Students who have registered for courses within the prescribed course load (up to three courses) are not required to submit the Graduate Students Course Registration System (GSCRS) form to the school for approval. The course registrations for these students will be automatically approved by the school, subject to the availability of course vacancies.

Students who wish to overload and register for an additional fourth course^J in the semester MUST seek endorsement from their supervisor to do so. The GSCRS form with the supervisor’s endorsement must be submitted to the Graduate Studies Office via email (msegraduate@ntu.edu.sg) by the end of the course registration period for consideration and approval.

Students who do not wish to overload but have registered for an additional fourth course as backup are required to rank all four registered courses in order of preference and submit their course rankings to the Graduate Studies Office via email (msegraduate@ntu.edu.sg) by the end of the course registration period. The school will approve the top three ranked courses (with available vacancies) and the rest will be automatically rejected. Students who fail to furnish the school with their course rankings will be randomly allocated to any three of their registered courses.

D. Cross-School/Cross-Programme Course Registration
Research students who are registering for cross-school or cross-programme courses (courses not offered to the student’s programme of study) are required to submit their registrations for the courses by 20 Jan 2025 (Mon), 11:59 pm.

^J Excluding the "other compulsory courses" listed under section A that are required to be taken by research students but do not count towards their fulfilment of the coursework requirements.

Any requests to deregister from courses after 31 Jan 2025 (Fri) will be handled as course withdrawals. Students will be given a ‘W’ grade for the courses they have withdrawn from in the semester, which will be reflected in all academic records including the official transcript. The grading will not be included in the computation of the student’s Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). Students will still be liable for the tuition fees of the courses that they have withdrawn from in the semester.

All course withdrawal requests are to be submitted to the school via email for approval by 4 Apr 2025 (Fri), 12:00 pm. The email shall indicate the course to be withdrawn from and the reasons for the withdrawal. Late submissions will strictly not be entertained.