Welcome to the CS Department of GMU

The department offers BS, MS, and PhD programs in Computer Science; MS programs in Software Engineering, Information Systems, and Information Security and Assurance and BS program in Computer Science . The department also offers concentrations in the inter-disciplinary MS in Data Analytics Engineering and PhD in Information Technology offered by the Volgenau School of Engineering.

Faculty in the department have research interests in networking, architecture, parallel and distributed computing, performance evaluation, software engineering, multimedia, graphics and visualization, databases, software engineering, data mining, security, information systems, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics. The Department is part of the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University.

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MS Degree

Required Courses

MS in Software Engineering,
  • SWE 619 Object-Oriented Software Specification and Construction
  • SWE 621 Software Modeling and Architectural Design
  • SWE 622 Distributed Software Engineering
  • SWE 637 Software Testing
MS in Computer Science,
  • Artificial Intelligence and Databases
    • CS 550 Database Systems
    • CS 580 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
    • CS 584 Theory and Applications of Data Mining
  • Programming Languages and Software Engineering
    • CS 540 Language Processors
    • SWE 619 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
    • CS 621 Software Modeling and Architectural Design
  • Systems and Networks
    • CS 555 Computer Communications and Networking
    • CS 571 Operating Systems
    • ISA 562 Information Security Theory and Practice
  • Theoretical Computer Science
    • CS 583 Analysis of Algorithms
  • Visual Computing
MS in Information Systems Engineering,
  • INFS 612 Object-Oriented Software Specification and Construction
  • INFS 614 Database Management
  • INFS 622 Information Systems Analysis and Design
  • ISA 562 Information Security Theory and Practice
MS in Information Security and Assurance,
  • ISA 562 Information Security Theory and Practice
  • ISA 656 Network Security
  • INFS 612 Principles and Practice of Communication Networks
  • OR
  • CS 555 Computer Communications and Networking

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