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• Academic Dates & Deadlines.
• All Courses taught at UI.
• EE catalog of courses.
• Engineering outreach courses.
• CS homepage.

• Graduate Admission requirements:
  • written statement of goals in CS and 3 letters of reference.
  • undergraduate GPA of 3.0,
  • GRE general (aptitude) 1700
  • Intl. students only -- TOEFL score of 550
  • minimum admission requirements:
    • course in high-level language; data structures; discrete math; and full year of calculus.
  • deficiency classes: (after admission, but 0 credit)
    • systems program design (compiler design) (445);
    • computing languages (310) [the graduate catalog incorrectly says Theory of Programming Languages];
    • operating systems (341);
    • files and databases (360);
    • computer architecture (351);
    • and any prerequisite courses to the graduate core courses (hidden in here is Theory of Computation (490)).
  • Application
  Here are materials from web.archive.org (as backup when the UI site gets changed and material cannot be found)
• BSCS 4 year plan
• CS department

• MS CS:
  • CS Master's Program
  • 18h CS courses, 18h 500-level courses
  • Breadth requirement: at least one class from at least three of the following categories: software architecture, hardware architecture, development processes, research foundations, and computer science theory
  • CS501 (1 cr)
  • Transfer credits: up to 12 credits can be transferred. These credits can be from other institutions or non-degree credits. Bottom line, the max is 12h.
  • thesis option
    • 30h total
      • this includes the graduate breadth requirement of (9 cr),
      • at least (6 cr) of thesis (total thesis credits allowed is 10h).
    • thesis defense
  • non-thesis option
    • 30h total
      • this includes the graduate breadth requirement of (9 cr),
      • CS501 (1 cr)
      • up to 6 credits CS580
    • comprehensive written and/or public oral examination

• PhD CS:
  • CS PhD Program
  • 78h in consultation with committee
  • up to 45h of CS600 are allowed
  • up to 33h can be imported from MS
  • at least 33h of the 78h must be other than CS600
  • 39h+ must be UI courses (this number includes dissertation hours)
  • 52h+ must be at level 500 or above
  • 2 semesters of CS501 (seminar)
  • Breadth requirement: at least one class from 4 out of the following 5 categories: software architecture, hardware architecture, development processes, research foundations, and computer science theory.
  • 1 semester of teaching
  • 2 semesters on-campus (resident campus included)
  • Qualifying Examination (written or oral); (not needed if M.S in CS)
  • Preliminary Exam (see first bullet)
  • dissertation