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MS Personalized Track

The MS Personalized track is for students who want to pursue a program of studies in an area that is not covered by one of the other tracks. You are required to arrange for a Computer Science faculty member who agrees to be your advisor and oversee your program of studies, prior to selecting the track.

1. Overall Requirements

Students must complete at least a total of 30 graduate credits.

  1. Fulfill the 12-point core requirement.
  2. At least 6 points of 6000-level graduate courses selected from Computer Science and/or related areas together with your faculty advisor.
  3. Students using previous courses to fulfill core requirements may complete the 30 graduate credits by selecting additional graduate courses; at most 3 credits overall may be from "non-technical" graduate courses.

2. Core Courses

For the 12-credit core requirement, students take four courses from the following six:

COMS W4115 Programming Languages & Translators

COMS W4118 Operating Systems

COMS W4156 Advanced Software Engineering

COMS W4231 Analysis of Algorithms (same as CSOR W4231 Analysis of Algorithms)

COMS W4701 Artificial Intelligence

COMS W4824 Computer Architecture (same as CSEE W4824 Computer Architecture)

 Core courses may be imported from another institution.

3. Track Courses

Advisor-approved 30-point program. At least 6 points of 6000-level graduate courses selected from Computer Science and/or related areas together with your faculty advisor. At most 3 credits overall may be from "non-technical" graduate courses.

4. Contact

Please direct all questions concerning the MS Personalized Track to Prof. Mihalis Yannakakis.

5. Graduation

Candidates preparing for graduation should submit a completed application for degree to the Registrar's Office and submit a track graduation form to C.S. Student Services (an example of a completed form is available here).

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Last updated on Sep. 28, 2007 

 


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