A minimum of 12 courses (42 units) are required, at least ten of which must be from the 200 series. For the thesis plan, at least seven of the 12 must be formal courses and two must be 598 courses involving work on the thesis. For the comprehensive examination plan, no units of 500-series courses may be applied toward the minimum course requirement except for the field of medical imaging informatics where two units of Biomedical Engineering 597A are required. Lower division courses may not be applied toward a graduate degree. To remain in good academic standing, an M.S. student must maintain an overall grade-point average of 3.0 and a grade-point average of 3.0 in graduate courses.