1. Virginia Tech Graduate Program in Computer Science www.cs.vt.edu
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2. Overview PhD Program: 11 courses plus dissertation. MS Program:
Thesis option: 7 courses plus thesis
Non-thesis option: 11 courses.
Approximately 190 graduate students, over half of whom are PhD students.
Over 75% of all students (over 95% of PhD students) are funded by CS Department or by other departments or companies
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3. Research Particularly strong groups in … See www.cs.vt.edu/research
Human Computer Interaction
Systems & HPC
Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Software Engineering
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4. Faculty
Significant recent growth — 40 tenure-track faculty in Blacksburg, including:
20 new hires since 2002
4 joint appointments with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI)
Eight winners of NSF CAREER awards.
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5. Space Significant recent growth in facilities:
Seven labs in Torgersen Hall (2000)
New 40,000 sq. ft. building (2006)
New undergraduate teaching center (2006).
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6. Funding Significant recent growth in research funding. Grants in Force
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7. Graduates Recent PhD graduates working at …
Recent MS graduates working at …
Iowa State
UT-Austin
Sun
Marquette
Auburn
Yahoo
Villanova
ATT Research
IBM
Microsoft
Oracle
Rand Corp.
Amazon
Lockheed Martin
Eastman.
Google
MITRE
Vanguard
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