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Accelerated Master’s Degree in Computer Science<\/h1>\n

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Overview<\/h3>\n

The Accelerated MA program in Computer Science allows qualified undergraduate Computer Science majors to take up to 12 credits of selected CSCI\u20117xx courses\u00a0and have those credits count towards both their bachelor’s degree (BA or BS) and the MA degree in Computer Science<\/em>: So, whereas a student who wishes to earn both the BA\/BS and the MA must ordinarily take at least 150 credits (120 for the BA\/BS and 30 for the MA) and pay tuition at the graduate rate for 30 graduate credits, an Accelerated MA student may earn both degrees with as few as 150\u221212=138 credits and may only have to pay for 30\u221212=18 credits at the graduate tuition rate.<\/p>\n

When our 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\u20117xx courses they have taken is at least 3.0. When their transition to graduate student status occurs, the (up to 12) credits they earned for CSCI\u20117xx courses are transferred into their MA program. Then, after they complete the remaining MA degree requirements, they will receive the MA degree. (Accelerated MA students whose GPA in CSCI\u20117xx courses is below 3.0 when they receive their bachelor’s degrees will not automatically become Computer Science MA students, though they may in some cases be accepted into the MA program if they apply for admission.)<\/p>\n

Students in the Accelerated MA program will normally take some or all of the four required courses of our MA program (the Core courses) while they are undergraduates. These Core courses (each of which carries 3 credits) are:<\/p>\n