Every year, the online application system is activated by June 15 and deactivated by January 1.
No, the Graduate Admissions Committee determines a financial award decision based upon an applicant's complete application packet.
Only current UB or alumni students are eligible for spring admission. If you qualify, please contact the Graduate Admissions Office.
The completed online application and supporting materials deadlines are as follows:
Supporting materials must be POSTMARKED by January 1, 2012.
Failure to comply with the above deadline dates could result in an application not being processed for admission.
Information and arrangements to take the exam(s) can be made by contacting the Educational Testing Service (ETS) at http://www.ets.org.
Applicants are expected to have successfully completed coursework in computer science and math or logic equivalent to the following:
Although an undergraduate degree (bachelor's or four-year equivalent) is required for admission, an undergraduate degree in computer science is not required.
You can find descriptions of the courses cited above on our website listed underUndergraduate Academics in the Courses section.
In general, we expect our Ph.D. applicants to have a master's degree; however, truly outstanding applicants could be admitted directly into the Ph.D. program without an MS degree.
You must submit an online application with all the required supporting materials by the specified deadline.
Yes, we need to know. Our admission decisions are based on how well your qualifications match your ultimate graduate program plans. Please address this in your Statement of Purpose.
It is our intention to support all the Ph.D. students, if funding is available.
Under normal circumstance, an applicant with a bachelor's degree only is admitted to the master's program first. Upon completion of and receiving good grades in the courses designated for the Ph.D. qualifying process (refer to the CSE Graduate Student Handbook, page 6), MS students may submit their application and required supporting materials to the Graduate Admissions Office for consideration into our Ph.D. program.
We take the following "basic" elements into consideration when we evaluate applications for admission and financial aid:
Yes, you may transfer part of your graduate credits pending approval by the Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate School. Refer to the CSE Graduate Student Handbook, page 12, for details.
The Graduate School determines if a student's English requirement can be waived (or deferred by taking a test upon arrival). The CSE department cannot grant you a waiver. If you are offered admission, the CSE department can submit a petition to the Graduate School to request a waiver. You must submit a photocopy of your previous TOEFL/IELTS scores with your wavier request along with your supporting application materials. Refer to the Graduate School's International Student Admissions Policy website.
If you receive a degree from an institute within the U.S. prior to joining our program without a lapse in studies, the TOEFL exam can be waived by the Graduate School. The department can submit a petition to the Graduate School to request a waiver, if you are offered admission. Refer to the Graduate School's International Student Admissions Policy website.
Please enter the grades as shown on your transcript(s). We will evaluate your grades and GPA (grade point average) based upon a grading conversion scale.
If you cannot provide the financial documents at the time of applying, you may send the documents after a decision has been made on your proposed admission; however, your admissions process could be delayed and it may jeopardize your visa process.
No, offers of financial funding are made by the department's Graduate Admissions Committee (GAC). For this reason, we ask that applicants do not write to individual faculty members requesting financial assistance.
If there are faculty members you are especially interested in working with, you certainly should feel free to correspond with them about your specific interest. We would discourage you from sending generic personal letters and resumes prior to submitting an application. Unless you have previously corresponded with one of our faculty members, sending faculty such letters and resumes could be ignored. We encourage you to include your research interest information within your application packet.
In this website's Faculty and Research Areas sections.
This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the southwest. This image also shows Ketter Hall (left) and Jarvis Hall (right). In 2008, UB demolished the trailers that had occupied this site.
CSE faculty average some $4.5 million annually in research grants. Our research areas range from high-performance computing to data mining.
CSE faculty are major participants in the new $200 million Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
CSE's MultiStore Research Group is funded by a $1 million NSF grant for the development of high-performance online data-storage systems.
A CSE-affiliated research center developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use for automatically sorting hand-addressed mail.
This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northeast. Ketter and Furnas Halls can be seen on the left, just south of the new building. We broke ground in April 2009.
CSE faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geography, and many other disciplines.
The Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory maintains one of New York State's most powerful compute systems.
The CSE faculty includes NSF CAREER award holders and ACM, IEEE, and AAAI fellows.
A geometric algorithm developed by CSE professor Jinhui Xu configures a set of radiation beams to destroy brain tumors in a form of computer-aided surgery.
This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northwest. The edge of Ketter Hall is visible on the right, just east of the new building. Ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 2011.
CSE professor Aidong Zhang is developing intelligent content-analysis programs to automatically analyze images, replacing human coding of semantic content.
CSE professor Russ Miller is one of the authors of a program that can determine the structure of molecules as large as 2,000 atoms from X-ray diffraction patterns.
Pursuing work on document verification and identification, CSE researchers use machine-learning algorithms to study handwriting variability.
CSE Professor Russ Miller, along with Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, developed an algorithm for crystal structure determination which is considered one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century by Computing in Science and Engineering Magazine.

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