PlusOne Frequently Asked Questions

Effective Spring 2025, students cannot apply for the PlusOne program in the final semester of their undergraduate degree program. The due date for applications to be submitted to the Graduate School in

• Fall: End of the seventh week of the semester
• Spring: End of the seventh week of the semester

Students will need to submit a new application to the new MS program via the Slate application portal. Steps for how to apply can be found on our PlusOne Details & Policies webpage.

The submission of a new application to change the MS program must occur while a student is still at the undergraduate level and not in a student’s final term in their undergraduate program. Students are not permitted to change their PlusOne MS program after matriculating to the MS portion of their PlusOne program.

Yes! The 25% PlusOne scholarship will be automatically applied when accepted into the program after the add/drop period and will be reflected on the student invoice as the “COE Tuition Scholarship“. As long as progress is being made toward degree completion, PlusOne students can receive this 25% tuition scholarship each semester of their MS Program once they have graduated from their undergraduate degree and enrolled in their master’s degree program. Students in PlusOne programs are not eligible for the Double Husky scholarship or the New Program and Location Launch Scholarship. For questions about the scholarship, please reach out to coe-gradadvising@northeastern.edu.

You can find the MS Program Contact for your program of study on the PlusOne Pathways webpage for your admitted or prospective pathway. Additionally, MS Program Contacts can be found on the Graduate Student Services webpage.

Students can email their Program Contact for questions about courses (i.e. course content), advice on course selection for a particular career path or area of interest, and questions about independent study and master’s Thesis/Project options.

Please email coe-gradadvising@northeastern.edu and an advisor for your academic department will set up an appointment with you. Please be sure to include your name, NU ID, and PlusOne program information in the body of your email.

To ensure that your courses taken during your undergraduate degree are applied correctly to your MS program, please follow the course share instructions for this process.

No. Students in the PlusOne program may be able to pursue a graduate certificate, but are not permitted to triple count courses between the bachelors, master’s and certificate programs.

Students who wish to pursue a graduate certificate should consult their undergraduate and graduate academic advisor to ensure course requirements are being met for all enrolled programs. Students must wait until they have matriculated from the undergraduate program to be admitted into MS level certificate programs.

No. Additional graduate coursework taken as an undergraduate student beyond the maximum 16 semester hours may not be applied as transfer credit towards a student’s PlusOne MS degree, even if the graduate coursework was not applied to the undergraduate degree requirements.

Please submit a Registration Override Request form. For details on how to complete this form, please review the Override Request Instructions and the Sample Override Request Form. Please be sure your Program Contact is listed correctly on the form.

PlusOne students who are still at the undergraduate level of their program are only permitted to enroll in one online course per fall/spring semester, pending availability.

Video streaming (V35) course sections are currently open only to part-time graduate students. Students who do not meet this criterion will face a student attribute restriction when they try to register. If the course is only offered in video streaming (V35) modality, registration may be permitted even when there is a restriction, however, this is at the discretion of the academic department. If you wish to request registration for a restricted V35 section, you will need to submit a Registration Override Request form. Please note international students will still need to adhere to all OGS requirements to remain within visa compliance.

If the course you are interested in is not listed in the academic catalog for your catalog year, you will need to complete a Standard Petition form to get permission for the course to count towards your MS program requirements. It is recommended to discuss coursework with your MS Program Contact prior to submitting the form. Please refer to the Petition Form Instructions and Sample Standard Petition Form for instructions on how to complete this form.

Please refer to the instructions for how to make this request and eligibility for these courses on the Computer Science and Business Course Registrations webpage. Please note, if the course is NOT on your approved curriculum, you also need to submit a Standard Petition form to request permission to have the course count it towards your MS program requirements by following the instructions in the above question.

Please refer to the PlusOne Pathways webpage for your admitted or prospective pathway for information about curriculum and course sharing details as some courses are a requirement to take as part of course sharing for certain pathways.

PlusOne MS Engineering Management students please click on this link for specific information about course waivers.

It is always recommended students discuss waivers with their MS Program Contact. To request a course waiver, students are required to complete the Standard Petition Form and list BOTH the course they wish to waive and the course they plan to take instead. Students need to attach a copy of unofficial transcript and submit it using DocuSign to their MS Program Contact for their approval.

If you are trying to add yourself to a waitlist for a course and receive this error, this means that the waitlist is at capacity and no additional names can be added to the list at that time.

Students enrolled in the PlusOne program are permitted to participate in up to three co-ops during their combined undergraduate and graduate degree programs. However, only one of the co-ops can be participated in at the Master’s level.  Please refer to PlusOne Master’s Co-op page for additional information.