Moving from Pre-Major to Full Major
Due to capacity constraints, students who are accepted as pre-majors in the Department of Decision Sciences may not be accepted as full majors. Please review the information below to find out how to become a full major in your area of study.
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
The Dean's Office will track students' progress through their foundation courses and automatically change their major status when they are eligible if space is available.
The requirements to be eligible for full major status are:
- Meet the CBE minimum requirements as outlined on Apply to CBE.
- Minimum GPA of 3.0 in MSCM foundation courses (including Chemistry and Physics)
- Completion of all MSCM foundation courses (including Chemistry and Physics). Students enrolled in their last foundation course(s) will be given provisional major status. See the section below on provisional major status for more information.
Operations Management
- Meet the CBE minimum requirements as outlined on Apply to CBE.
- Eligible students will be contacted via Western email and asked to complete an additional application.
- Submit the additional application by the deadline given in the email.
- Additional applications received by the deadline will be reviewed by a Decision Sciences faculty admission committee. Admission criteria are listed below.
- Students will be notified of their status via email prior to the first day of registration for the next quarter.
Average GPAs for recently accepted students can be found on Operations Management.
Management Information Systems
- Meet the CBE minimum requirements as outlined on Apply to CBE.
- Eligible students will be contacted via Western email and asked to complete an additional application.
- Submit the additional application by the deadline given in the email.
- Additional applications received by the deadline will be reviewed by a Decision Sciences faculty admission committee. Admission criteria are listed below.
- Students will be notified of their status via email prior to the first day of registration for the next quarter.
Average GPAs for recently accepted students can be found on Management Information Systems.
Concentration Admission Criteria
- Space available in the concentration
- Past academic performance
- Western GPA is the primary factor considered but other factors may include:
- Performance in business courses taken at Western
- Trends in academic performance
- Performance in courses taken at other institutions as listed on the Transfer Equivalency Report
- Western GPA is the primary factor considered but other factors may include:
- Admission priority will be given to students with the best academic performance relative to the rest of the applicant pool.
- Academic performance will be the primary decision factor, but other factors may be considered (e.g., rationale for pursuing field of study, related work experience, student leadership, etc.).
Provisional Major Status
All Decision Sciences programs have a provisional major status for eligible students. Provisional majors are able to register for major restricted courses.
Students who are enrolled in their last foundation course(s), but have not received a grade will be given provisional major status if they meet all other full major requirements. Provisional majors must pass the foundation course(s) they are currently enrolled in with a C- or better or they will lose their provisional major status and be asked to withdraw from major restricted courses.
Students can only be provisional majors once.