The program is offered online through UTEP Connect.

The Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies (BMS) degree gives students an opportunity to pursue a broad, interdisciplinary studies curriculum rather than having to follow a perspective specialized major. As an individualized program of study, the BMS emphasizes a wide-ranging learning experience and a more expanded perspective than that provided by traditional undergraduate majors. Students focus on an interdisciplinary theme, period, set of problems, specialization, or perception not currently available through established majors. There is no minor for BMS students

The BMS degree encourages students to tailor their study to their own personal and professional interests and needs. The degree provides students a fundamental knowledge of skills necessary to competently express themselves, think creatively, solve problems, and understand the nature and function of people and the environment.

Marketable Skills

1. Critical thinking: Analyze and evaluate issues in order to solve problems and develop informed opinions.
2. Leadership: Step up, think, and act critically and creatively to bring others together to accomplish a common task.
3. Problem-solving: Find solutions to difficult or complex issues.
4. Teamwork: Participate as an effective, efficient member of a group in order to meet a common goal.

Admissions Requirements

• New, transfer, and returning students can declare their intention to work toward a BMS degree if they meet UTEP’s admission requirements.
•  The admissions process and official transcript evaluations must be completed prior to the creation of a degree plan for a student by a BMS advisor.
•  All students admitted into the BMS program are required to meet each semester with a BMS advisor to select the courses they want to enroll in and to confirm that the courses selected can be used in the BMS Degree Plan. 
• If a student wishes to change the major to BMS, it will be done after the initial appointment with the BMS advisor.

Degree Requirements

The Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies degree requires a minimum of 120 semester hours, including at least 39 hours at the advanced or upper-division (junior and senior) level. In addition to completing the 42 semester hour University Core Curriculum, each student defines, in consultation with a BMS advisor, three areas of concentration totaling 45 semester hours, including a minimum of 27 hours of advanced work. Each area of concentration is composed of 15 hours, nine (9) hours of which must be advanced. The goal of the concentration is to give students an interdisciplinary foundation that satisfies individual educational and professional goals while maintaining academic rigor and integrity. Thirty-three hours of electives, 18 of which must be advanced, bring the degree total to a minimum 120 semester hours.

Only 66 hours from a two-year institution or community college can apply toward the BMS. A foreign language is not required. A student on the ESOL track who has completed ESOL 1311 AND 1312 are required to complete ESOL 2303.

A 2.0 GPA is required for graduation.

4 Year Sample Degree Plan