General Information

Advising During the Regular Semester

The department's Graduate Program Advisor is the official advisor for all enrolled MSME students. You should contact him/her for any questions related to the program. The Graduate Advisor can help you with your academic hold, advise on course load, process various required forms, and handle other issues related to your MSME program.

Contact the current Graduate Advisor:

Dr. Raghu Agarwal
Room: E117
Email: raghu.agarwal@sjsu.edu
Phone: (408) 924-3845

Currently, there is no mandatory advising requirement for enrolling in courses unless you are on probation. If you are on probation, you would make an appointment with the Graduate Advisor, fill out the MSME Advisory Form and request to have your hold cleared. You would be unable to register until the academic hold is cleared.

Download the MSME Advisory Form. [pdf]

Candidacy Form

Advancement to candidacy is a crucial step to complete your MSME program. An approval of advancement to candidacy denotes that the student is on track to graduate. This form requires the signature of the departmental graduate advisor, and after approval, it’s processed by the ME office.

The Candidacy form can be submitted only after you satisfy (1) the Classified student’s status and (2) the GWAR requirement. 

The Candidacy form should be filed as soon as these two conditions are met. To be eligible to enroll in the graduate project course (ME 295 A/ ME 299), you must have an approved Candidacy form on file. Failure to file this form timely, your graduation will be delayed. When filling out the Candidacy form, you must follow the strict guidelines stipulated by GAPE. You can download the sample of a correctly completed Candidacy form from the following site. When completing the Candidacy form, you can go to the sample Candidacy form link given below to see how a properly filled Candidacy form looks like.

Effective Fall 2025: The requirement for ME 201 will be replaced by ME 291.