UR Computer Science Department

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester is well known for its research and collegial atmosphere. The department offers both a BA and a BS in computer science through their elite undergraduate program. They also grant an MS and PhD in computer science through their intensive graduate program. Research by the URCS faculty has impact on both the infrastructure and the applications of computing, ranging across system efficiency and security, computational social choice and algorithmic game theory, mining and predicting social and health outcomes, and natural language and video understanding. The research is often interdisciplinary, leading to collaborations across several departments and centers within the university.