The UMass Dartmouth Computer Science Master's program gives graduates a broad and deep knowledge of computer science by offering a strong core program with a wide selection of elective courses. The program maintains a balance between theory, systems, and applications, with emphasis on software development. Our students gain the ability and courage to use their knowledge by working on realistic scale projects in the graduate courses. Their experience includes work as a member of a team as well as situations where an individual is responsible for the whole project from problem specification to the completion of the solution.
Students learn to conduct independent research and present their results in oral and written forms.
They graduate with the knowledge and skills required to develop and design high quality computer systems and application software. They have the ability to follow the rapid changes in the field of Computer Science. As highly qualified professionals, our students are ready to compete for responsible positions in the computer industry, research institutions, government, or to pursue their education in PhD programs. There are also individual machines of various kinds, including a transputer-based parallel system. Various processing and data functions are also resident on the VAX 8650, which was until 1995 the university s mainframe computer.