Applications for admission must be approved by both the Department and the college in which the student wishes to enroll. Applicants should have a strong computer science background. Students who wish to obtain a degree from a college other than the one from which they received their undergraduate degrees and students with inadequate backgrounds in mathematics and statistics will be required to do remedial work specified by the department's graduate coordinator and approved by the new college. A grade of D or below in any core course will necessitate retaking that course. A student is permitted to repeat one core course once.
Students can select a thesis or nonthesis option for the master's degree.
The thesis option requires a minimum of 30 credit hours and the nonthesis option a minimum of 33 credit hours. A minimum of 6 credit hours must be taken in CIS 6971. Each nonthesis master's student is required to pass a written comprehensive examination. To be admitted to the Engineer degree program, students must have completed a master's degree in engineering. To earn the degree of engineer, a student must obtain at least a 3.0 GPA in at least 30 graduate credit hours beyond the master's degree, within five calendar years of enrollment.