Breadth coursework must have a letter grade of B- or higher.All coursework must be taken through the Coursera MOOC platform.CS 421 Programming Languages and Compilers.Not required, but available to use toward the eight courses required for the degree. Please see printable MCS-DS Degree Requirements document. CS 513 Theory and Practice of Data Cleaning.Must complete three courses (12 credit hours). Machine Learning:ĬS 425 Distributed Systems ( Cloud Computing Concepts) Must complete one course each (with a grade of B- or higher) from the four different areas of machine learning, data mining, data visualization and cloud computing. Note: Each MCS-DS course is four credit hours. Applications for the MCS do not require letters of recommendation, but will be considered if included, especially if used to justify experience in lieu of required coursework, or other irregularities. The Department of Computer Science does not require GRE scores for any of its graduate programs.
Applicants without this can strengthen their application for admission by passing the optional Data Structures Proficiency Exam. The recommended undergraduate GPA for applicants applying to the Professional Master's program is a 3.2/4.0 or higher. Students with a bachelor’s degree in a field other than CS are encouraged to apply, but to succeed in graduate-level CS courses, they must have prerequisite coursework or commensurate experience in object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, linear algebra, and statistics/probability. Who may apply? Applicants should hold a 4-year bachelor's degree (or equivalent).
Students who would like to take a more general set of courses should consider the University of Illinois Online MCS.
Students receive lectures through Coursera's massive open online course (MOOC) platform, but are advised and assessed by Illinois faculty and teaching assistants on the more rigorous set of assignments, projects, and exams required for university degree credit. The MCS-DS includes required coursework in machine learning, data mining, data visualization and cloud computing. The MCS-DS track requires 32 credit hours of graduate coursework, completed through eight graduate-level courses each at the four credit hour level. The Master of Computer Science in Data Science (MCS-DS) track is a non-thesis (coursework-only) program of study that leads to the MCS degree using courses that focus on data science. Complete a Master’s degree online in the hottest area of the new millennium! Learn about new statistical and computational methods that are transforming business and society from the Illinois faculty who are pioneering them. Illinois Computer Science offers a specialized track of courses that satisfy the MCS degree requirements, but with coursework that focuses on data science - the art of extracting new knowledge and finding meaningful information in a massive sea of data.