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Accelerated Master's Degree in Computer Science

Queens College - CUNY
New York , United States
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Artificial Intelligence | Computer Science | Software Engineering
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Information and Communication Technologies | Engineering
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English
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Program Overview

Accelerated Master's Degree in Computer Science

Overview

The Accelerated MA program in Computer Science allows qualified undergraduate Computer Science majors to take up to 12 credits of selected CSCI-7xx courses and have those credits count towards both their bachelor's degree (BA or BS) and the MA degree in Computer Science. This enables students to earn both degrees with as few as 138 credits, rather than the typical 150 credits, and pay tuition at the graduate rate for only 18 credits, rather than 30.


When Accelerated MA students receive their bachelor's degrees, they automatically transition to graduate student status and become Computer Science MA students, provided their GPA in the CSCI-7xx courses they have taken is at least 3.0. The credits they earned for CSCI-7xx courses are then transferred into their MA program. After completing the remaining MA degree requirements, they will receive the MA degree.


Program Structure

Students in the Accelerated MA program will normally take some or all of the four required courses of the MA program (the Core courses) while they are undergraduates. These Core courses are:


  • CSCI 700: Algorithms I (which may be taken in place of CSCI 323 for the BA/BS)
  • CSCI 715: Distributed Computing (which may be taken in place of CSCI 344 as an elective for the BA/BS)
  • CSCI 722: Computability and Complexity (which may be taken as an elective for the BA/BS)
  • CSCI 744: Computer Architecture and Networks (which may be taken in place of CSCI 343 for the BA/BS)

Admissions

To be eligible for admission to the Accelerated MA program, students must meet the following requirements:


  1. Be an upper sophomore or lower junior
  2. Be a Computer Science BA or BS major and have completed at least 15 credits of Queens College courses that count towards the requirements of the major
  3. Have a Queens College Computer Science major GPA of at least 3.5

Further Information

The Computer Science MA program, which Accelerated MA students will transition into after receiving their bachelor's degrees, provides further information on its webpage. Accelerated MA students who have transitioned to graduate student status must remember not to violate the MA program's course selection constraints for MA students with a bachelor's degree from Queens College.


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