We are the largest top-10 CS department in the United States. The closest other top-10 CS department is about 1,000 miles away. Our undergraduates are active participants in all aspects of department life, including our world-class research program. In the last few years, we've seen undergraduate research projects in areas such as autonomous vehicles, optimizing compilers, computer security, automated debugging and verification, bioinformatics, reinforcement learning, and machine vision.

Over 1000 undergraduates are pursuing CS degrees in our department. Our students come from all over Texas and the world. We are proud of the diversity of our student body. Two of our student organizations, Women in Computer Science (WICS) and Empowering Leadership Alliance (ELA) help students from underrepresented groups become comfortable as computer scientists. Click here for more about who we are. If you are thinking of joining us, click here to find out how, including how to schedule a visit with one of our student Ambassadors.

Our faculty have won numerous teaching awards, both on and off campus, for their commitment to teaching excellence.

We offer about 50 different undergraduate courses every year. After satisfying a set of core requirements, students tailor their own programs based on their interests.

The Turing Scholars Honors program offers outstanding students the opportunity to finish their core requirements early so that they can take challenging advanced classes and get involved in a research project.

The Integrated 5-Year BS/MS program, to which students apply in their junior year, allows motivated students to get both an undergraduate and a masters degree in just five years.

Campus recruiters are clamoring to hire our students. Click here for more information on the jobs our students get, the salaries they earn, and how we can help you find the job you want.

Our students have access to world class computing facilities. There are public Windows labs, public Unix labs, and a set of remotely accessible Unix hosts. There are also labs dedicated to more specialized computing. For example, we run a general-purpose High Throughput Computing (HTC) cluster, Mastodon, which is managed using the Condor job scheduling software. We have a state-of-the art Visualization Lab and a Robotic Soccer lab. We belong to the MSDN Academic Alliance, which makes free software available to our students.

To find out more about us, contact our Undergraduate Advising Center.