• The University of Calgary offers MSc in Computer Science program for a duration of 2 years.
  • It is an on-campus, thesis-based program and can be completed both full-time and part-time.
  • This course is offered both full-time (2 years) and part-time (3 years) basis.
  • The University of Calgary offers a different program such as:
    • Computer Science (Thesis-based)
    • Computational Media Design (Thesis-based)
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering (Thesis-based and Course-based)
  • The Computer Science program helps students to build skills, novel ideas for designing and implementing software and algorithms to solve computing problems.
  • Students who register as part-time only get permission from the department to do a specialization in Software Engineering offered jointly through the Department of Computer Science Electrical and Computer Engineering.
  • Students with full-time get the facilities to do some additional courses that are:
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Databases
    • Computer Graphics
    • Scientific Computing
    • HCI and Visualization.
  • The MSc program is consists of 1 core course and 4 electives courses (including 12 units of additional courses).
  • The University provides workshops and different resources to help students in internships and entrepreneurial training and will also give the pre-requisite for a Ph.D. program.
  • Students get opportunities to work with companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Autodesk, and Microsoft.
  • There are a total of 14 faculties, along with 85 institutes and centers which provide in-depth learning.
  • The student-faculty ratio of the Computer Science program is 23:1 and the graduate employment rate is 95%.
  • The University of Calgary ranked 6th by Research Infosource in 2018 and the Top 5 for research performance in Canada.
  • The Faculty of the department have received global recognition by winning awards like federal awards, Provincial awards, Indigenous awards, etc.
  • Job opportunities after the MSc in Computer Science are Application Developer, QA Tester, etc and the average salary goes up to 59,775 USD.