1. Talk to your Academic Advisor and DSO to get permission for Day 1 CPT

2. Get an employment letter from your employer. The letter must contain the following information: dates of training; job description; the number of hours you will be working per week

3. Select a 0. 5 credit hour CPT course

4. DSO will check your materials and update your I-20 info

5. Once you receive the new I-20

6. Remember to renew your CPT annually!

👉Trine University has 3 semesters each year: Fall, Spring, and Summer. Summer semester is 2 months; Fall & Spring semesters are 3.5 months.

👉To maintain F1 status, International students have to register for 2 courses (1 onsite course + 1 online course), and 6 units for every semester.

👉Onsite course requires students to attend class on campus once per semester, the onsite class will take place on weekends, (one day in the weekend) from 8 am to 5 pm.

📌Trine University is planning to change the onsite frequency to twice a semester

📌Student must attend the onsite course. If not, you will lose your F1 visa

👉Except for the specific day you attend the class onsite, the other class are fully online. You could attend the class on Trine University's online learning system. Some of the classes are on Zoom but most are prerecorded or there is a zoom discussion you can choose from.

👉During the summer semester, students are eligible to apply for a break, students of the summer term still can choose 0.5 credit hours for CPT, then are able to work full time during the summer break.

Core Courses - 21 credit hours

• BA 5223 Executive Communication

• FIN 5203 Finance for Engineers

• GE 5103 Project Management

• GE 5113 New Product Development and Innovation Strategies

• BA 5103 Business Ethics

• BA 6933 Statistics and Data Analysis

• MGT 5093 Business Strategy and Decision Making

Choose 9 credit hours from below：

• GE 5163 Engineered Quality

• GE 5093 Design Thinking

• GE 5133 Lean Six Sigma

• MGT 543 Operations Strategy and Management

• MGT 5013 Advanced Plant Management

• LAW 5003 Law and Engineering professional

Program Requirements (30 credit hours):

• GE 5103 Project Management

• FIN 5203 Finance for Managers

• INF503 Advanced Database

• IS 5103 Object-Oriented Programming in JAVA

• IS 5113 Data Mining and Data Visualization

• IS 5203 Network Management

• IS 5213 Data Science and Big Data

• IS 5403 Cybersecurity

• IS 5803 Information Studies Capstone

• BA 6933 Statistics & Quantitative Methods

• *IS 5203/DIT 7003 Network Management
• *IS 5403/DIT 7013 Cybersecurity
• *IS 5213/DIT 7023 Data Science and Big Data
• *BAN 5013/DIT 7033 Analytics and Software Tools
• DIT 7083 Computer Science with Python
• DIT 7043 IT for Management
• DIT 7053 IT Procurement Processes
• DIT 7063 IT Project Management
• DIT 7073 Innovations in IT
• RSH 7093 Research Statistics for Information Technology

If you have taken the courses with * sign before, you can waive them.

• RSH 8003 Quantitative Research Methods
• RSH 8013 Qualitative Research Methods
• RSH 8023 Research Design
• RSH 8033 Advanced Research Methodology

• DIT 9006 DIT Research Proposal Prep
• DIT 9016 DIT Applied Research Project I DIT 9026 DIT Applied Research Project II