MSc Computer Science - Small Schools or Womens Colleges?

juillet
Sun, 07 Sep 2014 06:41:46 +0000

Most women’s colleges will not offer an MSc in CS - or any MS, really, because most women’s colleges are liberal arts colleges, which focus exclusively or almost exclusively on undergraduate education. There are a few women’s colleges with graduate programs (Simmons, Chatham, and Bryn Mawr come to mind), but their graduate programs are usually co-ed. And none of them have an MS in computer science.

There are lots of smaller universities, though, that have a master’s in computer science - and yes, some of them are very good. Rice University is a fairly small school (~6,000 total students, only 2,000 graduate students) that has an MS in computer science. Brown is about the same size and offers the ScM, and Dartmouth is also around the same size and offers an MS in computer science. RPI is slightly larger (7,000 total students) and has an MS in CS. URochester has around 9,000 total students and a CS master’s. Tufts also has an MS in computer science and it is medium-sized (~10,000 total students). Carnegie Mellon has about 12,000 total students (6,000 graduate students) and is well-known for CS.

Is there any particular reason that you are looking for a smaller university? The size of a university doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the size of the graduate programs in a given field. Graduate programs are usually way smaller than undergrad programs, with many departments only admitting a relative few students a year. All the classes are typically small, with more attention from professors.