The Grad Track Pathway offers provisional admission for the M.S. in Merchandising and Digital Retailing for exceptional undergraduate students. Aligned undergraduate and graduate courses allow students to progress more efficiently to pursue career goals or to prepare for a doctoral degree.

Admission requirements and program policies

Admission requirements

Students applying to the grad track option should be majors in the consumer experience management, BS program. Students are eligible to apply for the grad track option during their junior year, after completing at least 75 credit hours. A cumulative GPA of 3.5. or higher is required at the time of application

The student’s application will be reviewed by both undergraduate and graduate advisors. Once approved, the student must apply to the Toulouse Graduate School within the first semester of their senior year.

Program policies

After completing at least 90 credit hours, the student is eligible to take specified graduate courses for credit toward the MS degree. Students should earn a B or higher in these courses to be counted toward the MS degree.

Students admitted to the grad track option will be conditionally admitted to the MS program.

Undergraduate students who have been accepted to the grad track option should complete all BS degree requirements and graduate within 12 months of the first day of the semester for which they began taking graduate courses or enrollment in graduate-level course work will be suspended.

The student must enroll in the graduate school in the long semester after finishing the BS degree and should take the remaining graduate courses in the following year(s) to complete the MS degree. If the student does not enroll in the graduate school in the long semester after finishing the BS degree, those graduate course credit hours will not be counted for the MS degree, even if the student comes back for graduate school in the future.

Program requirements

Students may select up to 6-9 hours from the following courses, which are all 3 credits, if they are on the academic track. Students may select up to 6 hours from the following courses if they are on the professional track.

• CMHT 5000 - Global Discovery in Merchandising and Hospitality Management( CMHT 4000 - Global Discovery in Merchandising and Hospitality Management )
• CMHT 5440 - Consumer Theory ( ICON 3800 - Consumer Psychology )
• CMHT 5550 - Promotional Strategies ( MDSE 3900 - Branding and Promotion )
• CMHT 5600 - Managing Customer Experiences ( CMHT 3950 - Creating Consumer Experiences )
• CMHT 5770 - Digital Strategies and Consumer Insight ( DBUS 3090 - Digital Channel Strategies )
• MDSE 5090 - Digital Merchandising( DBUS 4090 - Digital Merchandising )
• MDSE 5240 - Global Retailing ( MDSE 4010 - Global Sourcing )
• MDSE 5330 - Consumer Analytics and Data Visualization ( ICON 4440 - Consumer Analytics and Data Visualization )
• MDSE 5510 - Advanced Buying, Planning and Allocation ( MDSE 4510 - Advanced Buying, Planning and Allocation )
• MDSE 5560 - Sustainable Strategies in Merchandising ( MDSE 4560 - Sustainable Strategies in Merchandising )
• MDSE 5660 - Advanced Merchandising Applications ( MDSE 4660 - Advanced Application )
• MDSE 5750 - Digital Retailing​​​​​​​ ( DBUS 3190 - Digital Retail Marketing Campaigns )

All remaining courses for the Interdisciplinary Studies in Consumer Insights, BS  must be completed.