Graduate Academic Support

UWM Graduate School Forms and Downloads

The Graduate Transfer Credit Evaluation (PDF) is used when you have graduate credits from another institution that you would like to have count toward your UWM graduate program. This is only to be used for transfer credits to a Master’s degree program.

Please complete Part 1 of the TCE, then have your faculty advisor complete Part 3. The form along with a copy of your transcript (can be unofficial) then needs to be returned to the Graduate Program Office for processing.

UWM One Stop Enrollment and Financial Services Forms

The Registration Change Form is used when you need to add, drop, swap, change credits, switch sections or grading option changes to your class schedule.  

Please complete the form down to the two boxes at the bottom. You will need a signature in the box on the lower right-hand side from: 

• your advisor, if you need permission to enroll in the class (you are a graduate student wanting to enroll in an undergraduate course), or 
• the instructor, when you are requesting to enroll in a closed class. 

The form then needs to be returned to the Graduate Program Office for processing.

The Request for Exception Form (PDF) is used by the Graduate School to make changes to your academic record, specifically:

• to make changes to your schedule (swap, drop, change sections), when you no longer have access to make changes in PAWS. Important: if you want to change your schedule, you need to include a Change in Registration form (below) as well.
• when you took a cross-listed class as an EE class, but you want it to count toward your concentration in CE.
• to request permission to continue when you have an academic hold due to a low GPA. This must include a plan as to how you will increase your GPA.

Please complete Section I (the entire 1st page), then your advisor must complete section II, and include a supporting statement. The form then needs to be returned to the Graduate Program Office for processing.

All Request for Exception and Change in Registration forms need to be submitted to the Graduate Program Office for processing. We make sure everything is complete on the form, then send it to the correct staff person in the Graduate School for further decision making and processing. 

Download form here.

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For enrollment management and class scheduling purposes, a written Program of Study, developed in conjunction with your major advisor is required to be submitted to the Graduate Programs Office during your first year of study.

MS Program of Study Form

 In the event that you need to change advisors, due to research interests, retirement, etc. Please complete the Change in Advisor form and submit it to the Graduate Program Office for processing.

Anyone wishing to complete an Independent Study must complete the registration form, design a proposal, obtain your major advisor signature on both and submit to the Graduate Programs Office for processing.

For enrollment management and class scheduling purposes, the student, in consultation with the major professor, should develop a proposed program of studies during the first year of enrollment. This program of study must be approved by the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and must meet the distribution requirement listed below. For subsequent changes, the student must file a revised program of study for approval. Learn more.

Guidelines in Developing the Program of Study

Program of Study Form

Mathematics/Quantitative Methods Requirement

The following courses are acceptable for the Mathematics/Quantitative Methods Requirement in the doctoral program.  Other courses may also be accepted if appropriate (Submit documentation, i.e. course description, for courses proposed to meet this requirement). 

Independent Study Form

Anyone wishing to complete an Independent Study must complete the registration form, design a proposal, obtain your major advisor signature on both and submit to the Graduate Programs Office for processing.

999 Guidelines and Proposal/ Approval Form for Engineering Graduate Students 

Electrical Engineering PhD Program of Study Form

Independent Study

Anyone wishing to complete an Independent Study must complete the registration form, design a proposal, obtain your major advisor signature on both and submit to the Graduate Programs Office for processing.

999 Guidelines and Proposal/ Approval Form for Engineering Graduate Students 

Change of Graduate Advisor Form

Please contact the Biomedical Engineering Department Chair or Leanne Myers for qualifying exam samples.

Please contact the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department Chair or Leanne Myers for qualifying exam samples.

Please contact the Computer Science Department Chair or Leanne Myers for qualifying exam samples.

The EE PhD Qualifying Examination is used to ensure that PhD students have sufficient depth and breadth of fundamental electrical engineering concepts. The exam is given twice per year, early in the Fall and Spring semesters, and is graded on a pass-fail basis.

• Electrical Engineering Doctoral Qualifying Examination Guidelines

Please contact the Industrial Engineering Department Chair or Leanne Myers for qualifying exam samples.

The Materials Science & Engineering PhD Qualifying Examination is used to ensure that PhD students have sufficient depth and breadth of fundamental materials engineering concepts. The exam is given twice per year, early in the Fall and Spring semesters, and is graded on a pass-fail basis. Guidelines are provided below.

• Guidelines for Ph.D. Qualifying Exams – Materials Science and Engineering

The Mechanical Engineering PhD Qualifying Examination is used to ensure that PhD students have sufficient depth and breadth of fundamental mechanical engineering concepts. The exam is graded on a pass-fail basis. Guidelines are provided below.

• Mechanical Engineering Guidelines for PhD Qualifying Exams