The undergraduate program offers the Bachelor of Science in Polymer and Fiber Engineering. Students may pursue the degree in a regular four-year program or under the five-year cooperative plan. Because of the multidisciplinary nature of polymers and fibers, the curriculum provides graduates with broad, diverse academic backgrounds. Emphasis in the freshman and sophomore years is on mathematics, chemistry, and physics, and in the junior and senior years on materials characterization, polymer/textile chemistry and engineering, process dynamics, applied mechanics, and application of each field to the broad range of problems encountered in the industrial complex. The program allows students to select courses from a range of general and technical electives.

Since most of the polymer/fiber coursework is concentrated in the last two years of the programs, students from junior and community colleges can readily transfer into the School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering. The Regents’ Engineering Transfer Program (RETP) greatly facilitates such transfers. Eligible students may also enroll in the five-year BS/MS degree program (see Graduate Programs). In the last part of the student’s program, there are two options (tracks) to allow choice of some advanced coursework in either the polymer or the fiber area.