Computer Science BS/MS

The curriculum is designed to meet several educational objectives. These broad statements describe what we expect our graduates to achieve within a few years of graduation. Our program educational objectives are:

1. To work productively as Computer Scientists, including supportive and leadership roles on multidisciplinary teams.
2. Communicate effectively, recognize and incorporate societal needs and constraints in their professional endeavors, and practice their profession with high regard to legal and ethical responsibilities.

In addition, the curriculum provides opportunities for students to develop the following knowledge, skills, and behaviors by the time of graduation:

1. Analyze a complex computing problem and to apply principles of computing and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions.

2. Design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the program's discipline.

3. Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts.

4. Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in computing practice based on legal and ethical principles.

5. Function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the program' s discipline

6. Apply computer science theory and software development fundamentals to produce computing-based solutions.

The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences occupies six buildings on UB's north campus: Bell, Bonner, Davis, Furnas, Jarvis, and Ketter Hall.

Together, these buildings form an outstanding educational and research facility, comprising 275,000 square feet of laboratory and office space.

The department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is housed in Davis Hall. Faculty offices, teaching assistant consultation space, and research laboratories are located on all floors of Davis Hall. Additional teaching laboratories are housed in Baldy, Bonner, and Bell Halls. Course lectures are scheduled in various buildings across the north campus.

The faculty members of the department, all of whom have national and international reputations in their fields, are involved in research projects that have a variety of special contracts. Many have also received research funding from corporations such as Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, Kodak, Microsoft, Nokia, and Xerox.

These projects include research in:

• algorithms and theory
• augmentative technology for the handicapped
• computer networks and distributed systems
• computer security and information assurance
• computer vision and information visualization
• data integration and databases
• high performance and grid computing
• cyber infrastructure and computational science
• knowledge representation
• computational linguistics
• medical applications and bioinformatics
• human computer interaction
• wireless computing
• multimedia databases and informational retrieval
• pattern recognition
• machine learning
• data mining
• programming languages and software systems
• embedded systems
• VLSI
• computer architecture

In their careers, graduates of the program will attain the skills to work productively as Computer Scientists, including supportive and leadership roles on multidisciplinary teams, communicate effectively, recognize and incorporate societal needs and constraints in their professional endeavors, and practice their profession with high regard to legal and ethical responsibilities, engage in life-long learning, such as graduate study, to remain current in their profession and be leaders in our global technological society.

Most students with bachelor's degrees obtain jobs in the fields of computing and applications programming or related areas such as systems analysis and design. Some of the jobs are in scientific or technical industries for which a considerable knowledge of mathematics is also desirable. Others are involved in programming for business and other administrative applications where the mathematics background is less necessary. There are also a number of jobs in systems programming which are not concerned directly with applications, but with writing programs that facilitate the use of computers for applications.

Skills gained in this program include:

• Communication
• Group/team work experience & special project knowledge
• Teaching
• Programming language concepts
• Knowledge of operating systems
• Designing
• Testing/analyzing/problem-solving
• Abstract & formal reasoning
• Selling and marketing concepts

Salary Trends

Salary Ranges (taken from BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook): $57,340-$153,710

What percentage of graduates goes on to graduate school? 10-20%