COVID-19 Update for Spring 2020:CS Student Advising will suspend in-person advising effective Tuesday March 17 until further notice. Current CS students may contact us via email: undergrads at ugradhelp@cs.ucsb.edu or graduate students at gradhelp@cs.ucsb.edu. Please allow up to 3 business days for a response. We will offer advising appointments via Zoom video. We will not have staff in our physical office, please be sure to reach out to us via email only for an appointment starting on March 23. General hours remain the same for our staff: Monday-Friday 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm PST. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to serve our students during this time. |
** Enrollment update** As of March 17, 2020, waitlisted students should expect to be added to a course only if seats become available. The shift to remote course instruction for Spring quarter will not change our enrollment limits. We are still bound by instructional teaching loads and instructional support (TA/tutor availability). The capacity in each course is determined by multiple variables (not solely the classroom size), including but not limited to: Classroom size availability |
Our graduate program offers a Master of Science and a PhD in Computer Science. The research interests of our students, and faculty, span a broad cross-section of computer science ranging from bioinformatics, cloud computing, computer architecture, computational science and engineering, database and information systems, foundations and algorithms, intelligent and interactive systems, networks and wireless networks, operating systems and distributed systems, programming languages, quantum computing, software engineering and security. We continue to attract top-quality students from all over the world.
