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Master of Science in Computer Science (MS)

Program Coordinator: Associate Professor Anatoliy Gordonov

Building 1N, Room 204

Email: anatoliy.gordonov@csi.cuny.edu

Telephone: 718.982.2852

Website: www.cs.csi.cuny.edu/grad

(See section Graduate Courses in Selected Disciplines for computer courses for teachers.)

The program is designed to provide advanced education in this rapidly evolving and challenging discipline. It serves those students who wish to increase their professional competence for business, industry, and research and development laboratories, as well as those students who wish to enter careers in research and teaching. Students may continue in Doctoral programs in Computer Science including The City University program in which CSI participates.

All students are required to take ten graduate courses (30 credits). These include four foundation courses, and six additional computer science graduate courses. The four foundation courses cover theoretical computer science, advanced operating systems, computer architecture, and programming methodology. Courses to meet the remaining requirements are chosen in consultation with a graduate program advisor to create a program that meets the needs of the individual student.

Any other registered CSI graduate course in computer science shall be counted as an elective for the purposes of fulfilling the MS in Computer Science degree requirements, with the exceptions: those courses specifically identified as computing for teachers or other computer science teacher education courses or those courses identified as graduate proficiency courses.

Computer Science Admission Requirements

1. A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or related area with a B average (3.0 out of 4.0) overall and in the major
2. Graduate Record Examination
3. Demonstrable Knowledge of:

   High-Level Language	CSC 126
   Computers and Programming	CSC 220
   Discrete Mathematics	CSC 228
   Information Structures	CSC 326
   Object-Oriented Software Design	CSC 330
   Switching Theory	CSC 346
   Calculus	MTH 230 or MTH 231, and MTH 232 , MTH 233, or MTH 235, MTH 236
   Probability	MTH 311
   Linear Algebra	MTH 338 or its equivalent.

   See the CSI Undergraduate Catalog for descriptions of these courses.

4. Students who satisfy the requirements listed above but who are missing CSC 632 (Operating Systems) or its equivalent in their undergraduate preparation will be admitted as matriculated graduate students but will be required to take the graduate proficiency course CSC 632 (Operating Systems)
5. Students transferring from other related majors or entering from other colleges will be permitted to remedy upper-level undergraduate course deficiencies as follows: students missing any of the following undergraduate course(s): the required undergraduate mathematics course(s), CSC 228, CSC 326, CSC 330, and/or CSC 346, must take these undergraduate courses as non-matriculated graduate students. No more than nine graduate credits may be completed before deficiencies in mathematics, CSC 228, CSC 326, CSC 330, and/or CSC 346 have been remedied. Students who are missing CSC 332 (Operating Systems) in their undergraduate background must take the graduate proficiency course CSC 632 (Operating Systems Design and Implementation). Undergraduate courses taken to remove deficiencies and graduate proficiency courses must be in addition to the regular coursework for the MS degree.

Computer Science Degree Requirements

1. Matriculated status
2. A program of 10 courses (30 credits) with at least a 3.0 (B) average. The following core courses are required of all students:

The remaining six courses will be chosen from any of the following: courses listed below under specialization areas; CSC 755 (Applied Mathematics for Computer Science) and/or CSC 759 (Graduate Research Laboratory).

Exceptional students may be permitted to satisfy six credits of the total credit requirement with a master’s thesis.

Specialization Areas

Certain specialization areas within computer science are well represented by the department faculty research interests. Students interested in specializing in an area specified below are advised to select courses from the courses listed in that area. Students who are interested in doing research are also advised to take CSC 755 and/or CSC 759. For additional CUNY Graduate Center courses in a specialization area, consult the graduate program coordinator.

Software Engineering

Multimedia and Image Processing

Networks, Telecommunication, and Architecture

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