MS Computer Science

The Computer Science Department’s graduate program is ranked among the top in the nation and in the top ten among public universities. The department offers both M.S. and Ph.D degrees. Nearly all full-time PhD students receive financial support in the form of assistantships, fellowships, and grants, whereas M.S. students typically fund their studies themselves, receive financial support through their employers, or secure research assistantships. The Department boasts robust research programs in all areas of computer science, including artificial intelligence, computer systems and networking, database systems, programming languages, software engineering, scientific computing, algorithms and computation theory, computer vision, computer audition,  geometric computing, graphics, human-computer interaction, and bioinformatics.