Admission requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree (BA or BS) from an approved university. Students whose degrees were Completed at foreign universities must submit notarized translations into English where appropriate. Such students may be required to have their degrees evaluated by a UPAS – approved evaluation service to determine equivalency to a bachelor’s degree from the United States
- A preferred GPA of 2.5 or above in their Bachelor’s degree.
- Official transcripts and Bachelor’s degree (BA or BS) in the relevant field of study from an approved institution
- Personal statement for seeking admission @ UPAS
- Satisfactory performance (>50%) in the UPAS entrance exam.
- Have a desktop/laptop with Internet broadband ( 6 Mbps or higher) connection and familiar with using Internet and email and other software programs with instructions provided on how to connect to the learning platform to complete the course work.
Graduation Requirements
- Satisfactory completion of 36 credit hours in the chosen field of study.
- The capstone project submitted by the student as part of the graduate program has to be approved by our university faculty committee for an award of Master’s degree.
- A 10 week supervised internship must be completed and an internship report should be submitted which is evaluated by faculty.
- Minimum 70% of the credits towards the degree must be taken from UPAS.
- Cumulative GPA must be 3.0 or higher.
- All graduate students are expected to complete the degree program within 3 years from the date of enrollment after which a request must be made to the admission department in the university asking for an extension. Continuous request for extension will not be encouraged and the student will be dropped from the program and won’t be eligible for a degree.