Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 19:54:03 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:47:21 GMT Content-length: 8321 Admission to Graduate Program *
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Admission to Graduate Study

An undergraduate degree is the minimal requirement for admission to graduate study. Students are admitted to a graduate program in one of the following three types of status:

  1. Full graduate status: when all admission requirements are met,
  2. Provisional graduate status: when some admission requirements are not (or inadequately) met,
  3. Temporary graduate status: to take specific graduate level courses for one term.

All students, except those with temporary status, must apply either to the M.S. program or to the Ph.D. program. Students admitted to the M.S. program are eligible to complete the requirements for that degree. If they wish to transfer to the Ph,D. program, they must apply to the Admissions Committee. which will make its decision based on the student's performance in the M.S. program and on the recommendations of the faculty.

Full Graduate Status

A student is admitted to a degree program with full status if he or she has minimally earned a bachelor's degree, has maintained a grade point average of at least B, and has completed the following courses or their equivalents. A student is admitted to a degree program with full graduate status if he/she has earned at least a B.S. degree, maintained a grade point average of at least B, and completed minimally a selection of courses in the following topical areas (the corresponding Pitt course numbers are indicated):

  1. in Computer Science, one course in each of:


  2. in Mathematics, the following:

Provisional Graduate Status

A student may be admitted to the M.S. degree program with provisional status if his or her qualifications are minimally deficient. Such students will be advanced to full graduate status after removal of the identified deficiences. Students are expected to gain full graduate status by the time they complete 18 credits or, equivalently, one academic year of full-time graduate studies. Students with provisional status are not allowed to hold a teaching assistantship.

Temporary Graduate Status

This status allows a student to take graduate level courses for one term without enrolling in a graduate program. Temporary status is appropriate for a student who

A student interested in applying for such special (temporary) status must first obtain written permission from the faculty member teaching the course of interest and then follow all of the procedures for admission to a graduate degree program.

Application Materials

All application materials should be sent by the specified deadlines, to the Graduate Admissions Committee, at the address given below.

Graduate Admissions Committee
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
U.S.A.

The materials should all be in hard-copy form. E-mail inquiries about Pitt's graduate programs may be sent to grad_info@cs.pitt.edu; inquiries about the status of an application may be sent to admit_status@cs.pitt.edu.

Deadlines:
February 1 for Fall admission with financial aid.
March 1 for Fall admission.
October 1 for Spring admission.

Application Materials to be Submitted by the Applicant

The following materials must be fully completed by the applicant and submitted in one mailing:

Application Materials to be Submitted by Others

These materials are to be sent directly to the Graduate Admissions Committee, at the address given above. The applicant's name must match with that given on the main application form.

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