About

The Department of Computer Science is one of 9 academic departments within the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri.

The ABET accredited Computer Science program currently has more than 350 undergraduate students, and the department is home to more than 150 Information Technology (IT) students and 19 tenured or tenure track faculty.

Degrees

• Minors

With foundations covered in algorithms, compilers, computational theories, database, networking, operating systems, programming languages and software engineering, the undergraduate and graduate programs are integrated over many application areas such as

cyber-security
multimedia
smartphone applications
filming
mobile and sensor networks
information management systems
bioinformatics and computational biology
medical informatics

Research

This department is the hub of all campus computer science activities that involve well established research programs in

bioinformatics and computational biology
graphics and image processing
geospatial information mining and retrieval
cyber-security
multimedia communications and networking
ambient intelligence and sensor networks
mobile and distributed computing
spoken language processing and human-machine interfaces, etc.

Additionally, members of the department lead the University’s institutional efforts in developing infrastructure for bioinformatics, computational biology and high-performance computing and networking

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Mizzou’s large campus gives engineering faculty and students the opportunity to work with people from a diverse range of disciplines.

Being minutes away from the School of Journalism, the Division of Plant Sciences and the Film Studies program for example, provides endless opportunities for collaborative research and fascinating projects.

This interdisciplinary approach is reflected in engineering classrooms, and through undergraduate research and student teams and organizations, students learn the importance of communicating across disciplines, a valuable skill they can take with them as they begin careers.

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