The traditional M.S./Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of several options for graduate study. This guide describes admission, advising, degree requirements (M.S./Ph.D.), and financial aid for that program. For information pertaining to other programs, please consult the pages for the Professional Master's Program and the Professional Capstone Certificate Program.
A student's first course in computer science at Beloit is likely to be an introduction to programming and algorithms. Here students learn to analyze a problem, devise an algorithm to solve it, and implement the algorithm in a computer language.