The Carleton advantage Carleton University's School of Computer Science graduates are recognized as among the best in the country. Carleton's prime location in Ottawa places you in the centre of the fastest-growing concentration of high technology firms in the country. Close ties between the University and this rapidly expanding sector ensure that the programs you study are on the cutting edge of developments in the field. Many of our graduates go on to careers at local industry giants such as Mitel, Cognos, Corel, Newbridge, and Nortel. If you qualify for the co-op option, you could graduate with up to 20 months of enriching work experience.
Students normally apply for the co-op option during the second year of the program.
To ensure that our students stay on the edge of education and research in computer science, two new streams were recently introduced. Software Engineering and Network Computing are designed to complement the existing streams in Management and Business Systems and Software and Computing. In addition, the School offers new courses in Internet applications, user interface architectures, foundations of software engineering, multimedia systems, and security and cryptography. The School emphasizes the use of advanced PC systems to allow each student access to a powerful individual work station. Facilities range from networked Pentium workstations to networked Sun workstations.