Traditionally a masters degree provides you with the opportunity to "drill down" to a specific subject area in a discipline. With information technology extending its reach into more and more application domains, students are increasingly interested in the combination of concentration areas. We have designed a flexible MS/CS program that allows you to obtain an in-depth education in several aspects of IT. It is this flexibility, and this combination of specializations, that distinguishes our MS/CS program.

Requirements for the completion of the MS/CS are:

1. Completion of at least thirty (30) credit hours of study at the graduate level (500-level and above), with a minimum grade of C and a minimum GPA of 3.0.
2. At least twenty one credit hours must be from computer science courses, identified by the CS prefix. The courses available in computer science are identified in the course catalog.
3. One of your courses must be any one of the following core computer science courses:
   • CS 510 Programming Languages or
   • CS 520 Operating Systems or
   • CS 561 Database Management Systems or
   • CS 573 Fundamentals of Cybersecurity or
   • CS 600 Advanced Algorithm Design and Implementation
4. The remaining nine credit hours can be from computer science or any other disciplines.

Graduate Advisors

• David Klappholz
• David Naumann

Suggested Concentrations

The following concentrations are suggestions for selections of courses that allow you to specialize in particular applications of computer science. Please note that these concentrations are only suggestions. The criteria above ultimately determine what is permitted to graduate with a MS/CS.

MS/CS in Software and Security Engineering

MS/CS in Databases, Security and Privacy

MS/CS in Databases and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

MS/CS in Health Informatics

MS/CS in Network and Systems Administration

MS/CS in Web Application Development