Master of Science Degree

The Master of Science Degree program offered by the Computing and Information Science Department at Kansas State University is a broadly-based curriculum designed to prepare students for advanced positions in the computing industry as well as for further academic studies.

Admission Requirements

A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with at least a "3.0" grade point average (or equivalent) is required for admission to the Master's Degree program. An applicant's background must include the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in mainstream computer science: block-structured, procedural, and nonprocedural programming languages, data structures and database systems, architecture, operating systems, software engineering, and theory of computation.
An applicant must take the GRE general exam. Mininum GRE score are 400 Verbal, 650 Quantitative, and 600 Analytical or 4.5 Analytical Writing. A TOEFL score of 575/233 is required of all international students whose native tongue is not English.

Degree Requirements

The M.S. degree requires a minimum of 30 credit hours of graduate level coursework; up to 10 hours can be transferred from other accredited graduate programs.
The M.S. degree is completed under one of the following options:

• Thesis option: Thirty credit hours of coursework, including an original thesis work of approximately six credits.
• Report option: Thirty credit hours of coursework, including a research project and report of two credits.
• Nonthesis-nonreport option: Thirty-three credit hours of coursework, including a presentation of work related to an advanced course.

Precise requirements for the degree are detailed in the Department's Guidelines for the Master of Science Degree booklet.

For further information, contact gradapps@cis.ksu.edu