A pioneer in cooperative education since 1919, Drexel operates one of the largest co-operative education programs in the nation. Its proximity to Philadelphia's main rail and highway links makes the US East Coast from Washington to Boston easily accessible. T he MCS Department is a broad-based academic unit in the College of Arts and Sciences, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in both Mathematics and Computer Science. Student societies include ACM, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Pi Mu Epsilon, and SIAM student chapters. T he department offers minors and dual degree programs in mathematics and computer science.
Students can also pursue dual degrees with other departments.
The undergraduate computer science program is accredited by the Computing Science Accreditation Board. The departmental computing environment includes Sun4 servers, Unix workstations, X terminals, Windows-based PC's, and Macintoshes connected to the Drexel campus network backbone and the Internet.