The College of Graduate Studies was formally organized in 1925, but the University of Idaho has offered advanced degrees for more than 90 years. The College of Graduate Studies encompasses all other colleges of the University except the College of Law. This coverage of all regular disciplines and professional fields provides a wide variety of academic programs. Enrollments are large enough to make possible the vital interchange of ideas among students and between students and faculty that is necessary in graduate programs, and yet enrollments are sufficiently small to permit close faculty-student relationships. The university is the chief research center for the state and, as such, operates active research programs in most areas providing a broad research base upon which graduate programs have been built.
Interdepartmental cooperation is an important factor on the Idaho campus.
Through the College of Graduate Studies, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Idaho offers graduate courses of study leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in computer science. Fields of farmland offering a palette of colors that change with the season surround Moscow. Moscow's location offers easy access to northern Idaho's mountains, lake, and rivers and to the recreation they support.