Changing an Advisor: If you are unhappy with your assigned advisor, you can request an advisor change. However, you do not get to choose who you are switched to. To initiate an advisor change request, please email your request and details related to your request to advising@comm.msstate.edu.
Selecting an Advisor: If you want to switch to a specific advisor, you need permission from that advisor. To initiate an advisor change request to a specific advisor, written confirmation of this agreement between the advisor and student must be emailed to advising@comm.msstate.edu. Note. Suppose the advisor’s assignments are at full capacity (18 or more assigned advisees). In that case, in the agreement correspondence, the advisee must acknowledge that agreeing to advise this specific student would put them over the department’s average advisor assignments and, in turn, their service obligations but that they are still willing to take on the prospective advisee.