COMPUTER SCIENCE Established in 1967, we are located on NC State’s award- winning Centennial Campus. POINTS OF INTEREST ACADEMICS - Engineering Online Ranked Nation’s 7th Best Online Undergraduate degree programs Graduate Engineering Program for Veterans and ■ Bachelor of Science in Computer Science* Active-duty Military Personnel (2018) 3 ■ Game Development Concentration - 43rd in Best Graduate Computer Science programs 3 ■ Undergraduate Minor, Computer Programming - 4th in Software Engineering Research 4 ■ Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s (ABM) Degree Program - 7th in High-performance Computing Research 4 ■ Certificate in Computer Programming - 31st in Systems Research 4 ■ Undergraduate Tracks in Security and Entrepreneurism ■ Facilities Graduate degree programs - Engineering Building II (EB2), state-of-the-art teaching and research facility, opened in 2006 ■ Ph.D. - Numerous research and teaching centers, institutes, ■ Master of Science (Thesis and Non-thesis options) laboratories and groups (e.g., Center for Educational ■ Master of Computer Science (Professional degree, Informatics, Digital Games Research Center, etc.) non-thesis, with on-campus or Distant Education options) - Leading-edge networking and computational infrastructure ■ Master of Computer Science - Tracks in Data Science, - Corporate and Career Services Suite Security, and Software Engineering Master of Networking (Thesis and Non-thesis options) ■ Enrollment with available concentration in Service Sciences, 2019-2020 1,135 519 199 KEY STATISTICS Academic Undergraduate Master’s Doctoral Year ■ Established in 1967 - one of the first official Computer Science Departments in the U.S. ■ Approximately 49 faculty, 9 emeritus faculty, 31 lecturers ■ Awarded a Science of Security Lablet by the Department and adjuncts, and 40 research, IT and administrative staff of Defense as part of its Science of Security and Privacy ■ Select Rankings: (SoS) Initiative - 5th among Online Master’s Degree programs (Best Buy ■ Designated by NSA and DHS as a National Center of Online Degree) 1 Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R) - 12th in Computer Science M.S. enrollment 2 ■ Academic Alliance Member of National Center for Women - 9th in Computer Science Ph.D. enrollment 2 and Information Technology - 24th in Computer Science undergraduate enrollment 2 ■ Recognized as a Laureate in Computerworld Honors - 26th in Computer Science BS degrees awarded 2 Program in 2007 and 2009 - 16th in Computer Science research expenditures 2 ■ Video Game Design and Development program ranked - 7th in Computer Science MS degrees awarded 2 #23 on the Princeton Review’s list of “Top 50 - 8th in Computer Science PhD degrees awarded 2 Undergraduate Schools to Study Game Design for 2019” - 1st in Tenure-track female faculty among all CSC and recognized by Animation Career Review as #31 departments in Colleges of Engineering 2 nationally (top 25%), #13 nationally among public schools - 10th in Tenured or Tenure-track faculty among all CSC and colleges (top 25%), and #6 in the South departments in Colleges of Engineering 2 ■ NC State named first North American university with - 6th in Best Online Graduate Level Computer Information access to IBM Q Hub Quantum Computer Technology programs 3 www.csc.ncsu.edu OPPORTUNITIES NC State is a Tier 1 research ■ IBM Smarter Planet Innovation institution, and with over 30 ■ Research with faculty - research Faculty Award winner centers, labs and groups, research ■ 3 NC State University Faculty Scholars centers and groups, undergraduate is key to our mission. Research ■ 3 recipients of the NC State Alumni opportunities, scholars and honors productivity stands at more than $64M Association Outstanding Research Award programs in active research grants, and annual ■ Applied learning - award-winning expenditures are in the $10M range. ■ 12 members in the NC State Academy capstone Senior Design Center of Outstanding Teachers projects ■ NC State Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension member ■ More than 100 companies actively ■ Proximity to world-famous Research partner with the department via Triangle Park (RTP) provides many ■ Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative sponsored programs, research, opportunities for internships and Excellence in Teaching and Learning with scholarships, projects and initiatives. co-ops. Approximately 25% of all Technology recipient ■ The department has a variety of NC State Engineering co-ops are ■ 2 members of the NC State Research student organizations providing from the department of Computer Leadership Academy leadership skills, service, net- Science. working, and informal learning ■ NC State is a top supplier of new SELECT DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI opportunities, including: graduate talent to Cisco, IBM, ■ David Burke - Director of Cyber Warfare - ACM/AITP SAS, NetApp, Fidelity Investments, for Naval Aviation - Graduate Student Association Amazon, and many others. ■ Marshall Brain - Founder of - Honors Program/Honor Societies HowStuffWorks.com; NC State SELECT FACULTY HONORS - Linux Users Group Distinguished Engineering Alumnus - STARS Student Leadership Corps ■ 30 National Science Foundation ■ Keith Collins - Retired EVP and CIO, - Women in Computer Science CAREER Award recipients and 1 NSF SAS Institute; NC State Distinguished ■ National competitions and Young Investigator Award recipient Engineering Alumnus recognition: student honors ■ National Academy of Engineering ■ Nirmit Desai - include 1st place in CSIDC World member Research Staff, IBM Finals, ACM Grand Award, Google ■ Emmy Award recipient, National and Creator of Mesh Our 9,600+ Anita Borg Scholarship, IBM’s Academy of Television Arts & Network Alerts alumni are Extreme Blue Internships, USA Sciences - for plasma screen technology ■ Suzanne Gordon - located in all Today, Academic All American. ■ Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame Retired CIO, SAS 50 US states Inductee Institute; NC State and in 24 AREAS OF EXPERTISE ■ National Inventor’s Hall of Fame Inductee Distinguished countries. ■ Artificial intelligence ■ National Academy of Inventors Fellow Engineering Alumna ■ Bioinformatics and computational ■ DOE Early Career PI Award recipient ■ Steve Grobman - Intel Fellow and sciences ■ 2 American Association for Artificial CTO, McAfee ■ Computer-based education Intelligence Fellows and a Senior Member ■ Richard Holcomb - Serial Entrepreneur ■ Graphics and visualization ■ American Mathematical Society Fellow ■ Bobby Johnson, Jr. - Former CEO and ■ High-performance & power aware ■ 10 Institute of Electrical and Co-founder of Foundry Networks; NC systems Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellows State Distinguished Engineering ■ Networks ■ IEEE Dist. Service Award recipient Alumnus ■ Security ■ 3 IEEE Golden Core members ■ Dr. Elizabeth Mynatt - Distinguished ■ Software engineering ■ IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Professor; Executive Director, Georgia ■ Theory and algorithms Scientist, a Distinguished Visitor, and 2 Tech Institute for People and Technology Distinguished Lecturers ■ Will Pagán - Patent Attorney and IBM The faculty foster strong ■ ACM SIGSOFT Inaugural Influential Master Inventor with Over 130 Patents multidisciplinary and collaborative Educator Award recipient ■ Rudy Puryear - Partner and Director, interaction with other disciplines at ■ ACM Fellow, 3 ACM Distinguished Bain & Company IT practice NC State (e.g., Bio-informatics, Scientists, a Distinguished Engineer, ■ Erik Troan - Serial Entrepreneur eCommerce, serious games, etc.), and a Distinguished Member ■ Donna Troy - Retired EVP and General other universities, industry, ■ Computing Research Assoc. (CRA) Manager, Epicor Software government agencies and Digital Government Fellow ■ Dr. Nicki Washington - Accomplished laboratories, and other partners in ■ NCDS Data Science Faculty Fellow Author and Researcher on STEM the Research Triangle Park (RTP) and ■ 2 Senior Research Ethics Fellows Diversity beyond. ■ Microsoft Research Oustanding ■ Josh Whiton - Founder and Former CAREERS Collaborator Award winner CEO, TransLoc, Inc. 5 ■ Center for Democracy & Technology ■ Average starting salaries, May 2019 *Accredited by CAC/ABET - BS CSC - $76,250 Fellow 1 www.geteducated.com/rankings/best_computer.asp 2 ASEE data, 2018 - MS CSC - $112,000 ■ Society for Industrial and Applied 3 U.S. News and World Report, 2019 Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow 4 CSRankings.org 5 NC State University Career Center (Published: Oct. 2019) Computer Science Department | NC State University l 890 Oval Drive | Raleigh, NC | 27695-8206 | www.csc.ncsu.edu.