Graduate courses taken outside the department are sometimes allowed but must be approved by the Graduate Committee before enrollment. The student must reach agreement on a thesis topic with a faculty advisor and must take 6 hours of 500 Thesis. Six hours of 500 Thesis may count in the 24-hour requirement at the 500 level or above. The student must take coursework in an area to prepare for the non-thesis master's examination. The student's advisor must verify that an acceptable set of courses has been taken before the student may schedule the examination.
Information concerning the examination is available in the departmental office.
The student must reach agreement on the problem topic with a faculty advisor and pass an oral exam on the problems before a committee of three or more faculty members, at least two of whom must be Computer Science faculty. The department reserves the right to contact these individuals or other knowledgeable people if additional information is deemed necessary or desirable. The student is expected to have taken the GRE verbal and quantitative general test within the past three years and to have these scores sent to The Graduate School. The student should satisfy the same background requirements as for the master's program. See the departmental brochure for details.