Outside Electives

You can apply up to six graduate-level credit hours of courses offered by other CU degrees on Coursera toward the MS-DS on Coursera degree*. All courses must be graduate level, offered through Coursera, and meet all applicable academic standards. This includes courses offered by the MS-AI on Coursera, the ME-EM on Coursera, the MS-CS on Coursera, and the MS-ECE on Coursera programs with the exceptions of CSCA 5214, CSCA 5224 and CSCA 5234. The DeepLearning.AI   prior learning credit specialization can also be applied as 3 outside electives. 
 

*Admitted students will receive an email regarding outside electives two weeks before the end of every session. This email includes the outside electives survey, which gives the program permission to apply your outside electives to your degree. 

• Please note that courses may not be counted twice toward two credentials of the same level. This means students can apply credit from a particular course toward one graduate certificate and one graduate degree, but they cannot apply credit from a particular course toward two graduate certificates or two graduate degrees.
• Please complete the survey ONLY if you have completed/will complete the outside electives you would like to apply in a previous session, or in the current session.
• You can expect to see outside electives applied to your Degree Audit (found in Buff Portal) in the two weeks after official grades post.
• You must earn a passing grade, a 'C' grade or better, in outside electives to fulfill MS-DS degree requirements.
   

If you want to complete degrees in more than one program, you must complete all the requirements for both degrees with no shared or overlapping course work. Please note that it is not possible to earn the MS-DS, plus the MS-CS or MS-AI.