Graduate programs overview

Join our community of students and researchers!

We encourage you to consider joining our amazing group of students, faculty, and researchers! We have a large faculty that provide leadership and expertise to our graduate students. Our faculty members are highly productive educators, researchers, and international leaders in their respective fields. 

While studying in CS&E, you will have access to state-of-the-art research facilities that provide you with the tools and resources needed to produce impactful research. We have teams working on everything from underwater robotics to interactive visualizations to the latest breakthroughs in big data and cloud computing. After working on their cutting-edge research projects here in Minnesota, our graduates often go on to continue their career at top-level universities and companies.

Our graduate program in computer science is part of a comprehensive research university with amazing facilities and student opportunities. We are the only Big 10 University located in a major metropolitan area, Minneapolis/St. Paul, home to 17 Fortune 500 companies. You will join a diverse university community that includes more than 2,700 international graduate and professional degree students in more than 200 fields. Students come from all 50 states and more than 130 countries around the world. Our department takes particular advantage of this diversity, collaborating on projects with colleagues from engineering, design, health sciences, natural sciences, business, social science, humanities, and more. We also have extensive collaborations with companies, universities, and government agencies around the country and around the world.

Ready to learn more? See all the reasons you should consider the University of Minnesota for your graduate degree or sign up to attend one of our graduate information sessions.

Programs

* An associated graduate program. CS&E faculty members play a significant role in these degree programs, however please note that the respective programs handle their own admissions.

Program staff

Stephen Guy

Stephen Guy

Director of Graduate Studies
5-225F Keller Hall
dgs@cs.umn.edu
612-625-3368

Joseph Nieszner

Joe Nieszner

Senior Graduate Program Coordinator
Computer Science Ph.D. and Computer Science M.S./M.C.S.
330G Lind Hall
Current students: csgradmn@umn.edu
Prospective students: csadmit@umn.edu

Allison Small

Allison Small

Graduate Program Coordinator
Computer Science M.S./M.C.S. and Data Science M.S/Certificate
330F Lind Hall
Current students: csgradmn@umn.edu
Prospective students: csadmit@umn.edu

Useful hours and phone numbers

Department of Computer Science & Engineering office
Office hours: M-F: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 
Phone: 612-625-4002

Graduate Admissions office
Office hours: M-F: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 
Phone: 612-625-3014

Graduate Student Services and Progress office
Office hours: M-F: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 
Phone: 612-625-3490

Graduate Assistant office
Office hours: M-F: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 
Phone: 612)-624-7070