No, not under ordinary circumstances. Students who have not earned master's degrees are admitted into our graduate program as M.S. candidates. Upon receiving good grades in designated Ph.D. qualifying courses, students may submit their application and required documents to the Graduate Affairs Committee for admission into the Ph.D. program.
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.
Institution: 2925
Department Code - GRE: 0402
Department Code - TOEFL: 78
The CSE online application is available here.
The Area Selection Form is available here in PostScript and PDF OR complete "Curricular Interest" section in your application.
Cover form for Letter of Recommendation is available here in PDF.
At a minimum, we expect applicants to have successfully completed coursework in computer science and math or logic equivalent to the following:
A two-semester undergraduate introductory sequence using a modern, structured, high-level programming language (such as C, C++, Java) equivalent to our CSE 115-116
A one-semester course in machine organization and assembly language (equivalent to our CSE 241)
One data-structures course (equivalent to our CSE 250)
One or two higher-level courses, such as those offered to third- and fourth-year undergraduates
Four semesters of undergraduate math or logic, including at least 1 one-semester course in which proving theorems was required (equivalent to our Math 141-142, MTH/CSE 191, and a higher level math course)
Although an undergraduate degree (bachelor’s or other 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 under “Undergraduate Course Descriptions” in the Academics section.
We take the following elements into consideration when we evaluate applications, both for admission and for financial aid:
GRE scores (verbal, quantitative, analytic); the computer science subject test is recommended, but not required. No minimum score required.
TOEFL scores, if applicable, minimum of 213 computer based or 550 paper based.
Grades in relevant coursework in computer science, math, logic, and engineering at the undergraduate and, if applicable, graduate levels (you will be required to provide official transcripts from all colleges and universities previously attended)
A personal statement explaining why you are interested in graduate study in computer science and engineering at the University at Buffalo
At least three letters of recommendation, preferably from faculty members at your college who know you well
No, the Graduate Admissions Committee determine their award decision based upon your complete application packet.
We support all of our Ph.D. students, as well as qualified master’s candidates who intend to earn a Ph.D. in the program. This is still a goal.
Only current UB students are eligible for Spring admissions. If you qualify, please contact Graduate Admissions.
A. No. Offers of financial aid are made by the department’s Graduate Affairs Committee. For this reason, we ask applicants not to 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 résumés before submitting an application, however. Unless you have previously corresponded with one of our faculty members, such letters and résumés are ignored. We encourage you to include such information with your application packet.
In the faculty section of this website. Click here.
This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the southwest. A bridge connects the western face of the building to Ketter Hall. Jarvis Hall is seen on the right. In 2008, UB demolished the trailers that had occupied this site.
CSE faculty averages some $4.5 million annually in grants for research in areas that 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. Ground-breaking is scheduled for 2009.
CSE faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geography, and many other disciplines.
The CSE-affiliated Center for Computational Research is one of the leading academic supercomputing centers in the U.S.
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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