Admission to the CS department is highly competitive:
For the Ph.D. program, the average scores of recent successful applicants have been: GRE: 612 verbal, 792 quantitative, 5.0 analytical. TOEFL: 638 paper/109 iBT with 29 reading, 28 listening, 24 speaking, and 28 writing. CS Subject Test (AGRE): 820. GPA: 3.79 (on a 4.0 scale).
For the Masters program, the average scores of recent successful applicants to this program have been: GRE: 624 verbal, 789 quantitative, 4.5 analytical. TOEFL: 646 paper/111 iBT with 28 reading, 29 listening, 26 speaking, and 28 writing. CS Subject Test (AGRE): 795. The GPA has been 3.48 (on a 4.0 scale).
Highly qualified students are encouraged to apply.
The process of applying for graduate study at UT Austin is complicated by the fact that it is necessary to apply separately to the University's Graduate School and to the Department in which the student plans to study. Please follow carefully the instructions provided here to guarantee that your application is given the consideration it deserves.
If you are interested in studying computing at UT, it is likely that you should apply to the Department of Computer Sciences. But there are other programs that may be more appropriate, depending on your interest. You may want to explore the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering or the Computational and Applied Mathematics Program before making the decision of where to apply.
If you have questions that are not answered on this site, please contact the graduate office, using the information provided here. You can direct your questions directly either to the CS department or the Graduate School, as necessary. We ask that you use these contact points and not any others, since that is the only way we can assure that you will get prompt and accurate responses to your questions. In particular, in many departments at UT, the person responsible for graduate admissions is the Graduate Advisor. The CS department has organized things differently and the Graduate Advisor has no role in Admissions. Please keep in mind that UT is a big place. If you talk to other people here, you may be told various things about how to apply to graduate school. Whatever you have been told elsewhere (including on the Graduate School's web site), make sure that you follow the instructions given here in order to guarantee that your application is considered.
