Additional Admission Requirements for the CISC Program

This program is designed for students with undergraduate majors in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics and who have completed courses or have equivalent experience in data structures and algorithms, assembly language, computer architecture, programming in a modern high-level language, systems software (compilers or operating systems), calculus (differential and integral calculus), and discrete mathematics. Applicants who do not have adequate backgrounds may be required to take one or more of the following 500-level graduate courses during the first two terms of the student’s program:

MCIS 500 Assembly Language and Architecture
MCIS 501 Java Programming Language
MCIS 502 Mathematics in Computing
MCIS 503 Data Structures and Algorithms

These are in addition to the required 36 credit hours of courses at the 600 level. Courses at the 500 level, when required, must be completed prior to taking courses at the 600 level; however, some exceptions may be permitted by the program director. MCIS 501 is a prerequisite to MCIS 503.