Due to the small and intensely research-oriented nature of our Ph.D. program, a student coming here will quickly be in the midst of that effort. Our theory group has collaborated extensively with other researchers inside and outside of the University of Rochester. Professor Hemaspaandra's work on computational politics involves researchers from six schools, and started during his Bridging Fellowship at the University of Rochester's Department of Political Science. Our department benefits from its relatively small size in a number of ways, starting with the student, faculty, and staff collegiality and shared infrastructure that maintains a single-family atmosphere. Students are funded as long as they make adequate academic progress, and our stipend levels are very competitive.
Students choose their own advisors on intellectual grounds, independent of money considerations.
Our Ph.D. qualifying process is designed to ramp students smoothly from courses to independent research in at most two years. Our apprenticeship model of advising gets students quickly into research, travel, publication, and presentation. Our placement record is excellent. Our laboratories are first rate, and access to them is immediate. Fees are waived for early applications.