12/3, Information Session, Master's Program in Computer Science. More...
12/10, Information Session, Master's Program in Computer Science. More...
12/17, Information Session, Master's Program in Computer Science. More...
We're hiring! Tenure-track position available at the assistant-professor level. More...
Starting Fall 2008, the CS Department will offer several new courses that target non-computer science-majors. More...
Maloof and Kolter (C '05) profiled in College's Research News. More...
Georgetown's Board approves the Department's MS Program. More...
We offer a variety of academic programs, which let you define a course of study supporting your academic and career goals.
With seven full-time faculty and three adjunct professors, we take great pride in our our collegial atmosphere and high degree of interaction with Georgetown's students. Indeed, we encourage students to get involved with faculty research projects.
Our students are amazingly bright, motivated, and hard working. Students graduating from our program start their own successful companies, work as developers and managers at top corporations, including Yahoo!, Apple, AOL, NPR, WashingtonPost.com, and Accenture. A high proportion pursue further study in fields such as law, neuroscience, and, of course, computer science at top graduate schools, such as Brandeis, Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard Law. Maryland, Stanford, Tufts, Washington, and Yale.
Throughout the academic year, the department hosts a number of social and academic events, such as informal gatherings, colloquia, and seminars. We regularly invite speakers from industry and academia to present their work and broaden the exposure of the Georgetown community to computer science and to information technology.
CS has changed the way the world votes, shops, and listens to music. The rewards are great. Our students enjoy fulfilling careers at companies, such as Yahoo!, AOL, Apple, Nintendo, and MITRE. They gain admission to top graduate and professional schools, such as Stanford, Yale, Dartmouth, University of Washington, University of Maryland, and Harvard Law.
Not really. The US Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) predicts that computer and mathematical science occupations will grow 30% between now and 2014. However, not all occupations will grow at this rate. For example, the BLS predicts that positions for computer programmers will grow only 2%. This is in sharp contrast to positions for software engineers, which they project to grow 46%, and for network-systems analysts, which they project to grow 54.6%.
For students who want to combine CS with another major, we offer a Bachelor of Arts. Its flexible requirements make it easier to fulfill the requirements of a second major. Previous students have combined CS with biology, linguistics, government, mathematics, and philosophy, to name a few.
Understanding offshoring is important. A recent ACM report states that "standardized jobs are more easily moved from developed to developing countries than are higher-skill jobs" (p. 10). Moreover, the report stresses that "there are steps that students ... can take to improve their chances of long-term employment in IT occupations", such as "obtaining a strong foundational education..." (p. 11).