The Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is pleased to be a participating institution of the Southern Regional Education Board's Electronic Campus. The Electronic Campus certifies that the programs and courses it lists comply with its comprehensive set of Principles of Good Practice. Five of the school's online master of science degree programs and all its doctoral degree programs are part of the Electronic Campus. These programs are:

o Graduate Certificates in Information Security

o M.S. in Computer Information Systems
(includes an optional concentration in information security)
o M.S. in Computer Science
o M.S. in Computing Technology in Education
(includes an optional concentration in information security)
o M.S. in Information Security
o M.S. in Management Information Systems
(includes an optional concentration in information security)

o Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems
Optional Concentration in Information Security
o Ph.D. in Computer Science
o Ph.D. in Computing Technology in Education
o Ph.D. in Information Systems
Optional Concentration in Information Security
Optional Concentration in Information Science

The school's strengths include a distinguished faculty, a cutting edge curriculum, and flexible online and campus-based formats for its five M.S. and five Ph.D. programs. It has approximately 2000 graduate students and has been awarding graduate degrees since 1980. NSU is a dynamic, not-for-profit independent institution dedicated to offering high quality educational programs from preschool through the professional and doctoral levels. It offers a total of 90 degree programs, 24 in undergraduate disciplines and 66 in graduate and professional disciplines. Located on a beautiful 300-acre campus in Fort Lauderdale, NSU has more than 23,000 students and is the nation's 10th largest independent institution of higher education.

The Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences has been a pioneer in online graduate education. It began offering online programs in 1983 and created the first electronic classroom in 1985. Since that time, it has developed other unique software tools to enhance the online learning environment. Ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the nation's top 20 cyber-universities, and listed in the Princeton Review's The Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools, the school offers about 300 online classes annually and has online students living in 47 states in the U.S. and in 25 foreign countries. The school also participates in several federal and military programs including the DANTES Distance Learning Program, and the U.S. Army's online initiative, eArmyU. Its curriculum in information security has been certified by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for compliance with CNSS standards. The school has a chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the International Honor Society for Computing and Information Sciences, and a student chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the largest in Florida.

Online students use the web to access course materials, announcements, email, distance library services, the Electronic Library, and other information and for interaction with faculty and fellow students. Online, interactive learning methods are used throughout the instructional sequence based on the use of WebCT as a course management system. Online activities facilitate frequent student-to-faculty and student-to-student interaction. They are supported by threaded discussion boards, white boards, chat rooms, and email. In addition, WebCT enables students to submit assignments online in multimedia formats and to receive their professors’ reviews of assignments online in the same formats.

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