In order to obtain the MSCS degree, students must successfully complete a minimum of 30 graduate credit hours (10 courses) in computer science with a grade of B or better in each of the courses. Students receiving grades lower than a B in any course will have to retake the course and obtain a grade of at least a B. Students must complete all program requirements within six years of their initial enrolment in the program.

The program offers a thesis option and a non-thesis option. Students in both options must take at least four graduate computer science (CS) core courses (12-cr hours). Students who wish to write a thesis take four graduate CS electives (12-cr hours) and sign up for 6 thesis credits (counts as two graduate electives) whereas students in the non-thesis option must take six graduate (18-cr hours) CS electives. One of these six electives can be CSCI 599 Master's Project.

Students in the thesis option must find a thesis advisor in the department based on their interests in order to comply with the thesis submission requirements of the UDC Graduate School.

Students in the non-thesis option, but wishing to do a special project as part of their Master's program (3530-599), need to find a faculty member (project supervisor).

Qualified students with little education in computer science at the undergraduate level can be accepted into the program based on the graduate faculty's decision; however, such students must successfully complete a sequence of background or migration courses with a grade of B or better before they can enroll in the regular graduate CS courses. No credit will be given for these background courses toward the MSCS degree.

MSCS COURSE CATALOG