UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GRADUATE SCHOOL, BALTIMORE
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
PROGRAMS OF STUDY
The Department of Computer Science offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.
Its programs provide opportunities for studies in all important
areas of computer science, with emphases in telecommunications and
computer networking, computability and algorithms, computer
architecture and VLSI, programming languages, software engineering,
artificial intelligence and machine learning, and symbolic and
numerical computation. To receive a master's degree, a student
must complete 33 credits of approved course work. Transfer of up
to 6 credits is allowed, subject to departmental approval. The
policy of the department is to keep the doctoral program select.
Only students of demonstrated ability and adequate preparation may
pursue the doctoral degree. The central concern of the Ph.D.
program is the involvement of its students in an environment of
high-quality research. Therefore, applicants to the program are
judged for their research potential. The student is required to
complete a set of core courses and to pass a written comprehensive
examination. Each entering student has an adviser who helps design
a program that meets the degree requirements.
RESEARCH FACILITIES
In the Fall of 1992, the Computer Science Department moved into a
new building for Engineering and Computer Science. The department
maintains an extensive research computing facility, which includes
a large network of over 50 Unix workstations (SGI, SUN, DEC),
several large compute servers (SGI, SUN), and numerous other
machines, including Macintoshes, PCs and transputers. Special
research groups include the Center for Telecommunications Research
and the Imaging Research Center. General campus computing
facilities include several large SGI and DEC systems running Unix
or VMS, a 16-node SGI multiprocessor system with over 1GB of shared
memory, several SGI workstation laboratories, and a number of PC
and Macintosh laboratories. The department is part of the
University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Science
(UMIACS) and has access to its research facilities which include a
Connection Machine CM-5. The University is a member of the San
Diego Supercomputing Center consortium through which is has access
to a number of large supercomputers.
FINANCIAL AID
Various types of financial aid are available. Research and teaching
assistants receive stipends of approximately $9000 and up in 1992-93,
plus remission of tuition. Graduate School fellowships, government
loans, and work-study opportunities are offered. In addition,
fellowships and grants-in-aid are available for minority students.
COST OF STUDY
Tuition for graduate courses is $162 per credit hour for Maryland
residents and $290 per credit hour for nonresidents in 1992-93. Fees
of $210 per semester are also levied.
LIVING AND HOUSING COSTS
UMBC housing and board in campus apartments for graduate students
costs approximately $4900 plus utilities for the 1992-93 academic
year. Off-campus housing is available at competitive rates.
STUDENT GROUP
UMBC currently has about 10,700 students enrolled in undergraduate
and graduate programs. The graduate enrollment of 1,570 is
expected to increase rapidly as present programs expand. We offer
BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and currently have
approximately 700 undergraduate majors. There are about 140
graduate students, of whom 60 are full-time students; 50 students
are in the Ph.D. program.
LOCATION
The University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore has two
campuses: UMAB located in downtown Baltimore and UMBC located just
outside the Baltimore city limits on a 475 acre suburban site. The
Computer Science Department is located on the UMBC campus. This
location is adjacent to I-95, the Baltimore beltway and the BWI
airport and provides convenient access to both the Baltimore and
Washington metropolitan areas and the immense concentration of
academic, government, cultural and recreational facilities.
THE UNIVERSITY AND THE DEPARTMENT
The UM Graduate School, Baltimore has both the oldest (UMAB) and
youngest (UMBC) campuses in the University of Maryland system. The
UMBC campus was founded in 1963 and has as its mission to be a
medium-sized public research university with a special emphasis on
science and technology. UMBC currently has about 10,700 students
enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs. The campus also
has an Information Systems Department which offers BS, BA, MS and
Ph.D. degrees, a Visual Arts Department with a new MFA degree
program in Digital Image Processing and a EE Department with an
active program in communication technology. The UMAB campus
includes the state's medical school, law school, dental school and
other professional programs in addition to a number of high quality
graduate programs. The resulting combined Graduate School has a
strong research program with over $120M per year in external
research funding from a wide variety of Government agencies and
industry. The UMBC CS Department consists of 16 full time research
faculty and 24 adjunct faculty.
APPLYING
In addition to the completed application form and official college
transcripts, applicants are requested to have three letters of
recommendation submitted on their behalf. A score on the Graduate
Record Examinations General Test is also required. Details are
available with the application form. Application deadlines are
specified by the Graduate School, but the application review
process begins by December 15 for admission in the fall semester
and by June 15 for admission in the following spring semester. The
application fee is $40.
CORRESPONDENCE AND INFORMATION
For information on programs or applications for assistantships:
Director, Graduate Studies
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland Baltimore County
5401 Wilkens Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21228-5398
Telephone: 410-455-3000
Electronic Mail: CMSCGRAD@CS.UMBC.EDU
Fax: 410-455-3969
For application forms and general information:
Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research
University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore
5401 Wilkens Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21228-5398
Telephone: 410-455-2538