MS Computer Science

The M.S. degree in Computer Science is offered in an on-campus and an online format. The online Computer Science graduate curriculum has the same requirements as the on-campus curriculum, allowing students to actively participate in dynamic, diverse, and interactive online learning communities and to complete their degrees on their own time via the Internet. The online format enables students to complete course work using the latest networked information technologies for increased interaction with educational resources, advisors, and materials.

Applicants to the on-campus M.S. degree are accepted in fall, spring, and summer semesters.  International on-campus applicants are accepted only in fall and spring semesters. The Computer Science Department, at its own discretion, may consider accepting students under conditional admission, thereby allowing students whose baccalaureate degrees are in disciplines other than Computer Science to complete program entrance requirements. A placement exam measuring programming skills and knowledge of Java is required for all conditionally admitted students. The exam will be administered during the first week of the semester and will determine if students will be required to take CSC 501.

Students have access to an outstanding variety of computing systems including a virtual server farm, a parallel processing cluster, and a hands-on network laboratory.

The UIS Computer Science Department is a Cisco Regional Networking Academy, serving as the instruction center for local academies at high schools, career centers, community colleges, and universities in central Illinois.