Students in Computer Science have the opportunity to participate in the continued development of an evolving science. They can share both the challenges and the potential of a scientific discipline that is still early in its development that a significant number of its fundamental precepts and methodologies have only recently been identified and are even now undergoing significant refinement.

A major in Computer Science prepares the student for continued study in graduate school and for a professional career in computer science and related areas of computer application. Those students who are oriented toward the application of the computer to a specific professional objective, such as industrial or business management, medicine, engineering, computational natural science, or law, should consider a Computer Science minor or double major in consultation with the adviser for those programs.