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With incredible demand for advanced computing skills across virtually every industry, now is an exciting time to earn a computer science master’s degree, whether you intend to pursue research or are seeking advancement, higher pay or new opportunities. UWM is one of Wisconsin’s two R1 research universities—an ideal place to bolster your computer science knowledge and skills.
This track is designed for people planning to pursue research or a future PhD. With a faculty mentor, you will prepare and defend a thesis or do an advanced project, which demonstrates that you can identify a problem and design, implement, evaluate, and explain a solution, including how it relates to prior work.
Qualified UWM undergraduate students can apply to begin this program during their senior year.
Departmental Support
Students in the regular track are eligible for, but not guaranteed departmental support. To apply for a teaching assistantship, complete the teaching assistant application. You can follow-up with the department chair to see about your application status. Your application is strengthened if you have a recommendation from a local professor with whom you have already worked.
Research assistantships are available only from individual faculty members who have openings. They typically only hire students who have demonstrated strength in the faculty member’s area of research.
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