(4+1) Format
For students pursuing a Master of Science in CS: The 4+1 format allows a student to complete an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, as well as the master’s degree in Computer Science in five years (4 years for the BS degree, 1 year for the MS degree). This will be accomplished by allowing qualified candidates to take two master’s-level courses in their junior or senior year of undergraduate studies and have those courses count toward the student’s bachelor’s degree, thus allowing the student to complete the remainder of the master’s degree in one additional year.
Note: the selection of graduate courses should be approved by a student’s academic advisor before registration.
Program length: 60 months (based on full-time enrollment)
Admission Requirements
Admission to the 4+1 option of the Master of Science degree in Computer Science will require a student’s transcript to be evaluated when first he or she applies to the program. If the student is a Computer Science and/or Cybersecurity major at Felician University, he or she would need to maintain a 3.0 average in the major(s) and at least a 2.75 GPA overall through the senior year (the year in which master’s degree work would begin).
The Master of Science in Computer Science requires completion of at least 30 credit-hours of study at the graduate level (CS 600 and CS 700 level courses) with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and a minimum grade of C in any course.
All 30 credits must be taken from Computer Science six hundred and seven hundred level courses. Three core courses (total 9 credits) are required and 21 credits are electives. If a course that can be considered a required course is not selected as such (selected among the 9 credits), it can be selected as an elective, if desired. Students have a wide variety of electives to choose from (not all of which will be offered each year) because of the wide variety of specializations available in the Computer Science field today.
CS/CSEC Electives from the Bachelor's Degree must be completed at the 300/400 level.
30 graduate level credits are required for completion of the MS in Computer Science: for more information refer to the Graduate Catalog for course offerings in the MSCS program.