The Computer Science Department is planning to launch a graduate program in Computer Science starting from Fall 2018. This will be a 30- credit hour program containing a core (4 required courses) and an elective component (4 electives or 2 electives in conjunction with Master thesis/project). For those graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Manhattan College 6 credits will be counted toward an M.S. degree from their B.S. courses. This it will be primarily a B.S.-M.S.program, which will still be open for students from outside. It should be expected that opening a graduate program will help to improve an undergraduate enrollment and to drastically enhance research in the department.

In order to be ready to apply for ABET accreditation of the B.S. program in Computer Science in October 2018, the Department of Computer Science shall make some appropriate changes in the B.S. curriculum, to start the assessment process based on the ABET requirements.

The Department shall hire a new Assistant Professor whose area of specialization is Networks, Cryptography, and Cybersecurity. This is important to develop new graduate and undergraduate courses in these areas, which are crucially important today.

Some software used for teaching and research needs to be updated.

            Computer hardware, within the department, need to be often updated to state of the art for training the students

ACM (Association of Computer Machinery) is a professional organization providing standards in Computer Science and computer education. It is important that our students should be able to be more active there and more activities should be performed by our local Chapter.