Overview

Department of Computer Science and Engineering / Department of Computer Science and Engineering is located in New York, NY, in an urban setting.

Degrees & Awards

Degrees Offered

Degree	Concentration
Master of Science (MS)	Computer science
(Graduate Certificate)	Software engineering
Master of Science (MS)	Bioinformatics
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	Computer science
Master of Science (MS)	Cyber security
Master of Science (MS)	Cybersecurity risk and strategy
(Advanced Certificate)	Bioinformatics

Degrees Awarded

Degree	Number Awarded
Master's Degrees	280
Doctoral Degrees	8

Earning Your Degree

Part-time study available?
Evening/weekend programs available?

Degree Requirements

Degree	Requirement
Master's Degrees	Comp Exam Required for some Thesis Required for some
Doctoral Degrees	Entrance Exam GRE General Test, GRE Subject Test Comp Exam Required Thesis Required Qualifying exam

Admissions

Acceptance Rate

3,333

Applied

977

Accepted

414

Enrolled

Applying

75

Application Fee - Domestic

Yes

Electronic
applications accepted?

Yes

Applications processed
on a rolling basis?

Application Deadlines

Type	Domestic	International	Priority date
Fall deadline	February 15th	February 15th	Yes
Spring deadline	November 1st	November 1st	Yes

Entrance Requirements

Exam	Details
Master's Degree Requirements	BA or BS in computer science, mathematics, science, or engineering; working knowledge of a high-level program
Doctoral Degree Exam	GRE General Test, GRE Subject Test
Doctoral Degree Requirements	BA or BS in science, engineering, or management; MS or 1 year of graduate course work

International Students

Exam	Details
TOEFL: Required	TOEFL Paper score: 550 TOEFL IBT score: 90
IELTS: Recommended	IELTS Paper score: 7

Tuition & Fees

Financial Support

Application deadlines for financial awards	February 15
Types of financial support available	Fellowships Research Assistantships Teaching Assistantships Scholarship and/or loans Graduate Assistantships Tuition waivers for student who do not receive fellowships or assistantships Career or field-related internships Financial support for part-time students

Student Body

820

Total Graduate Students

68%

International Breakout (representing other countries)

Race/Ethnicity

Hispanic/Latino	4.76%
Black or African American	0.98%
White or Caucasian	13%
American Indian or Alaska Native	Not Reported
Asian	9.15%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	Not Reported
Two or more races	0.85%
Unknown	2.68%

Gender

Male (75%)

Female (24%)

Faculty

68

Total faculty

Full-time - 33

Part-time - 35

Male (56)

Female (12)

Research

Focus of faculty research:

Peer-to-peer networking, cloud services, Web search, Web mining, social networks, multi-player games, vulnerability analysis, peer-to-peer security, multimedia forensics, biometrics, watermarking and digital rights management, wireless security, steganography, fault-tolerant distributed cryptography, usable security, computer graphics and visualization, computer vision, image processing, data structures, computational geometry and learning theory, combinational optimization

Externally sponsored research expenditures last year:

12,031,908

Location & Contact

Address 70 Washington Square South
New York, NY  10012-1019
United States

Contact Dr. Guido Gerig
Head
Email: gerig@nyu.edu
Phone: 646-997-3975

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