Prospective Students: Why Choose CCIS?

Whether you want to explore the foundations of computing, build systems and networks, create useful and enjoyable applications, or manage information in a complex enterprise, CCIS will challenge you and give you the opportunity and intellectual skills to achieve your goals. Here are some specific reasons to choose CCIS.

Excellent Students

CCIS students are known for high achievement in their cooperative education positions, in undergraduate research, and in systems work within the college. Check out the major awards that CCIS students and student groups have won.

In the CCIS Student Video, 8 students (Mike Atlas, Robert Gable, Tanya Cashorali, Nate Whittier, Rachel Ober, Ken McGrady, Arsene Pascal, and John Patota) describe the exciting academic and co-op opportunities for undergraduates in CCIS.

As a special example of what may be accomplished in the college, Ian Langworth published a book on Perl Testing in 2005 through O‘Reilly Press. This book was based on knowledge he integrated from courses, co-op, and his work with the CCIS Systems Crew.

Excellent Faculty

The CCIS faculty have strong reputations in programming languages, software engineering, algorithms, network security, distributed computing, database management, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and computer science education. For more information, see the Research Page.

Three faculty have won prestigious international awards. Professors Matthias Felleisen and Mitchell Wand have been named Fellows of the ACM and Professor Betty Salzberg has been named an IEEE Fellow.

Some faculty have authored well known text books including:

  • Matthias Felleisen, et al., How to Design Programs, MIT Press
  • Mitchell Wand, et al., Essentials of Programming Languages, MIT Press
  • Karl Lieberherr, Adaptive Object-Oriented Software, PWS Publishing

Some faculty have authored extensive pedagogical software systems including PLT Scheme and Java Power Tools.

A Rich Choice of Degree Programs

CCIS offers 19 degree programs:

  • BS in Computer Science
  • BS in Information Science
  • BA in Computer Science
  • A dual major of CS and IS
  • Duals of CS or IS and Business
  • Duals of CS or IS and Cognitive Psychology
  • Duals of CS or IS and Environmental Science
  • Duals of CS with the sciences: Mathematics, Physics  or Biology
  • Duals of CS with the arts: Game Design, Multimedia, Music Technology, or Digital Art
  • Combined BS and MS in Computer Science

For more information, see Degree Programs and Program Details.

For information on minors in CS or IS, see Minors.

Quality Courses

To find course descriptions and links to individual course charters, see Course Descriptions. Qualified students may also take graduate level courses as electives.

State of the Art Building and Facilities

Our new state of the art building, West Village H, houses faculty, administrative, and co-op offices, research and student computing labs, classrooms for many of our classes, and ample student lounge areas.

The building overlooks Huntington Avenue, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Fenway area in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. It is a short walk from West Village H to Symphony Hall, the Isabella Stuart Gardiner Museum, and Fenway Park.

In December 2005, the Boston Society of Architects/AIA voted to name West Village H as the winner of the 2005 Harleston Parker Medal for the best new building in the Boston area.

For more pictures of the CCIS home West Village H, click on the image above.

Undergraduate Admissions

To learn more about admission to Northeastern as a freshman or transfer student, go to Undergraduate Admissions

Contact CCIS

To send e-mail requesting additional information about the undergraduate degree programs in the College of Computer and Information Science, mail to: undergradschool@ccs.neu.edu.

The postal address of the College of Computer and Information Science is:

College of Computer and Information Science

202 West Village H

Northeastern University

Boston MA 02115

Our main telephone numbers are:

Main Office: 617-373-2462

Fax: 617-373-5121