Computer Science (B.S.)
Computer scientists play key roles in many walks of life in today’s society.
Graduates of the program work in many different areas, such as application programmer, network designer, database administrator, information technologist, game development and many others. Computer science-related jobs are among the 10 fastest-growing careers that show a lot of promise and opportunity for growth.
Majors complete a core of basic computer science courses that includes the study of programming and algorithms, data structures, database concepts, computer architecture and organization, programming languages, compilers, operating systems and software engineering. Important courses in closely related fields, such as discrete mathematics, digital logic design, scientific computation and probability and statistics, are also taken.
Computer science students are required to study all aspects of computing, including hardware, software and theory.
- Locations
- Brookings Main Campus
- Credits
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120
- Est. Time to Completion
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4 years
- Start Term
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Fall, Spring, Summer
- Have strong skills in math and science.
- Enjoy working with computers and technology.
- Are a creative problem solver.
- Are generally interested in how things work.
- Like the challenge of learning new things.
Job Outlook
- Information assurance software developer
- Operating systems and network administrator
- Software engineer
- Computer support specialist
- Information technology consultant
- Daktronics
- IBM
- Raven Industries
- Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies-Earth Resources Observation and Science
- General Dynamics
- Wells Fargo
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honors)
- Robotics Club
- eSports Club
