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Transfer Students |
 Welcome to the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. As a prospective Transfer
Student, here is some information that may interest you:
Transfer students, and students interested in switching to CS
Some of our required courses have a considerable chain of
prerequisites: it is difficult at best to switch to Computer Science at the
beginning of the junior year and finish in two years. We can evaluate
transcripts to give potential students an idea of the time frame required.
Many of our courses such as CS 360 (UNIX System Programming) assume a
thorough knowledge of the C programming language from day 1 in the course,
and a transfer student with a background in, for example, Pascal but who has
no C skills is likely to encounter great difficulty. Some area two-year
schools model their CS curriculum on our introductory courses and transfer
can be relatively painless. For advice in these matters and evaluation of
transcripts, send e-mail to info@cs.utk.edu
Students who already have Bachelors' Degrees
Roughly 25-30% of our graduate students do not have
bachelors' degrees in Computer Science, but rather come from such
backgrounds as Music, Math, EE, Biology, etc. Most of these students have
been out of school for some number of years and many of them at some point
assumed -- wrongly -- that they needed a BS degree in CS before they could
pursue graduate work. However, we need to see good evidence of academic
ability before we admit someone to our graduate program. The general GRE
test is required for regular graduate admission, and high scores are a good
indicator of ability in helping us to determine whether a student (with a CS
background or without) has the potential to succeed in our graduate
programs. A high undergraduate GPA (we also take into account the strength
of the school) is a good indicator. A low GPA is a problem, but it is less
of a problem if it was many years ago (time heals many things!). The
graduate degrees are more demanding than the BS degree, but even the BS
degree requires a lot of hard work and dedication. For some students,
obtaining the BS degree may take longer than obtaining the MS degree in CS
due to the fact that the BS degree also requires non-CS courses (traditional
liberal arts broadening courses, etc); we can evaluate transcripts to give
students an idea of how long a BS degree might take in contrast to a MS
degree. See also our information page about
Graduate Admissions and
Assistantships.
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