Students who are interested in this program should discuss it with a faculty member by the beginning of their junior year. A number of students who complete the computer science major also complete masters or doctoral degrees in computer science or a related area. The graduate schools attended by Wesleyan students include Carnegie-Mellon, Dartmouth, Stanford, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Wisconsin. Students who are interested in graduate school in computer science should discuss their options with a faculty member who may suggest additional Wesleyan courses to improve their background for certain graduate programs. Employment Graduates of the computer science program are employed at a wide range of industrial firms including D.E. Shaw, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Shell.
Many students obtain their positions by doing a summer internship at a company before graduation.
Other students gain additional job experience at Wesleyan by working as a consultant for the Information Technology Services or being involved with the Wesleyan Student Network. In addition, periodically a selected undergraduate major is employed as the system administrator for the Mathematics Department's network of computers. Many Wesleyan students may want to take some computer science courses without necessarily completing a computer science major. The following courses provide this opportunity. It is a seminar-style course that introduces some of the basic ideas in logic and computation and the connections between the two fields.