Program Overview

Introduction to the Part-Time Master's Program

The UBC Computer Science Department offers a Part-Time Master's Program, allowing students in local industry to take graduate courses on a part-time basis, leading to an MSc in Computer Science. This program enables students to continue working while advancing their career and keeping their knowledge up-to-date in this fast-moving field.

Program Requirements

Students in the Part-Time Master's Program will fulfill the requirements of the full-time Master's Program of their choice.

Courses

Graduate courses are offered on the main UBC campus in Vancouver, in or near the ICICS/Computer Science building. Most courses consist of two 75-minute meetings per week. Currently, no courses are offered in the evenings, weekends, or via distance learning technologies.

Graduate Course Options

• Explore graduate course options
• Courses - Winter Term 1
• Courses - Winter Term 2

Research Data, Patents, Publications

UBC has a number of policies governing academic life. In particular, Policy 88 claims ownership on behalf of UBC of many forms of intellectual property created at UBC, including computer materials such as software. Should you choose to patent or commercialize research conducted at UBC, the university will provide resources and expertise to help you do so, and any resulting income will be shared equally between UBC and all of the inventors.

Tuition Fees

Like all graduate students, students in this program are required to maintain continuous registration by paying annual tuition fee in installments. This tuition fee is independent of the number of courses being taken, and for part-time master's students may be assessed tuition fees according to Schedule B. Part-time students are expected to pay at least nine installments (plus authorized student fees) before graduation. Upon program completion, any installments not assessed will be assessed.

Financial Support

• Part-time students are not supported financially by the department.
• Part-time students are not normally supported financially by any faculty member supervising the student's research.

Graduate Programs

• MSc Program
  • 12 Credit MSc Thesis (Thesis Master's)
  • 6 Credit MSc Thesis
  • Master's Essay
  • MSc Program Requirements
    • Finding a Supervisor
    • MSc Program Timeline
  • Academic Regulations
• Master of Data Science
• PhD Track Program
  • Finding a Supervisor
  • Coursework
  • Program Timeline
• PhD Program
  • PhD Supervisory Committee
  • Research Proficiency Evaluation (RPE)
    • RPE Design
    • RPE Examination
    • RPE Process
  • Comprehensive Course Requirement
    • Courses by Research Area for Comprehensive Course Requirement
  • Thesis Proposal
  • PhD Program Timeline
• Co-op Internship
• Forms for Each Graduate Program

Registration Information

• Grads in CS
• Grads outside CS
• Non-Degree Students
• Undergraduate Students

Awards and Support for Current Grad Students

• Awards and Deadlines
• Tuition Fee Scholarships
• Financial Assistantship
• Policy for Teaching Assistantship
• Teaching Assistantship: Conflict of Interest and Tutoring

Grad Student Life

• Orientation Day
• Networking & Mentoring

Acknowledgement

The University of British Columbia acknowledges that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).