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Appendix B: U.S. Degree Programs in Computing
Appendix B: U.S. Degree Programs in Computing
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Joseph Turner Department of Computer Science Clemson University INTRODUCTION Many different titles are used for academic programs in computing in the United States. However, graduates of programs with such different titles as Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Science, Management Information Systems, Management of Information Systems, and Computer Engineering can be classified in various reports as having the same occupational specialty (such as computer specialist)
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are used for each of the various major programs (computer science, information systems, and so on)
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· Computer Engineering Computer Science and Engineering · Computer Science · Computer Information Systems · Information Science · Information Systems Management Information Systems Management of Information Systems Most of the degrees are designated B.S., but there are also B.A. degrees and variations such as B.C.S.
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However, Peterson's [11] lists the following numbers of programs in the United States and Canada in the areas indicated: computer science, 333; information science, 95; information systems, 72; and management information systems, 33.
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However, under the assumption that the number of graduates produced annually per department should not be far from that for computer science and computer engineering, rough estimates are about 2,500 master's graduates in information science, 1,900 in information systems, and 900 in management information systems. Thus, there Wanner to he short 1 s nno "Comouter specialists" who graduate with ~~ ~~ ~~ rat r -- master's degrees annually.
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in Figure B.1. Similarly, there are programs called Computer Science (CS)
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was mailed [73. The results of the survey listed 122 different program titles for "information systems" programs, but many of these, such as Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Computer Engineering, clearly do not all represent programs that would normally be included in this category.
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The number of courses in computing ranges from about 8 to 12 (semester courses) , but these are sometimes more similar to service courses in computing than to courses taken by computer science majors.
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Computer science accreditation is provided by the Computer Science Accreditation Commission of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board. The accreditation criteria include requirements for at least 40 semester credits of computer science and at least 32 credits of mathematics and science.
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Thus some programs in other areas, such as information systems, may also choose to be listed in computer science, and so it seems unlikely that there are 1,058 programs in computer science in the United States. Based on the experience of the first six years of operation, the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB)
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In general, the engineering programs tend to place more emphasis on computer hardware than do the computer science programs, and topics such as real-time systems and CAD/ CAM are also more heavily emphasized in computer engineering. Software Engineering There apparently are no undergraduate programs in software engineering currently.
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The impetus for computational science programs came from physical and biological scientists who felt that computer science was not producing the capabilities needed to solve their computational problems. (This is similar to the impetus for software engineering programs.)
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· Have an accreditation mechanism [1~. · Produce graduates similar to those for professionally oriented computer science programs.
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Graduate Programs Both master's and doctoral programs exist in information systems, information science, computer science, and computer engineering. There are also master's programs in software engineering and computational science, and doctoral programs in computational science.
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Examples are programs with software engineering, decision support systems, medical information systems, or telecommunications systems specializations. These may exist as tracks in more general programs, such as computer science or information science, or they may be separate degree programs.
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, 1990. Criteria for Accrediting Programs in Computer Science in the United States.
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