These students must have a score of 580 to be considered for an assistantship. Waivers will be approved by the Graduate School Dean regarding the transfer credit limit. An original financial statement is also required. The UM Catalog has a complete list of courses and their descriptions. The Department of Computer Science offers a number of graduate teaching assistantships and research assistantships.
Research assistants assist faculty with funded research projects.
Teaching experience is also desirable for teaching assistants. Other fees charged by the University are not included in the TA fee waiver package. Teaching and research assistants are required to register for 9 credits each semester. The program is supported by a laboratory of UNIX workstations, and Xtreme Machine parallel computing facility, an Access Grid remote collaboration facility, a Machine Learning Laboratory, and a number of PCs. A real-time systems lab equipped with PCs and Sun Workstations running MatrixX, Matlab, Rational Suite, and other state of the art software exists within the department.