PhD in Computer Science

Three current letters of recommendation from people qualified to evaluate your academic and professional qualifications are required. You should solicit recommendations from individuals who are familiar with your academic achievement and who can address your potential for success in this particular academic setting. If you have been out of school for a number of years and are unable to contact former professors, letters from other individuals who can address your achievement and potential will be accepted.

Your resume/CV should provide information about your academic degrees, work and volunteer experiences, research experiences, publications, awards, recognitions, and other relevant activities. If you are an international student and have taken an international standardized test (e.g., Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)), you may at your discretion include your scores in your resume.

The statement of purpose, which should be between one and two pages long, should include: objectives in pursuing graduate study; identification of fields within computer science in which the applicant has a particular interest; information that is relevant to the applicant’s qualifications for graduate study but that has not been included already in the application (e.g. major academic projects, papers presented or published, and non-academic computer experience); an informative title or a brief description of any course listed on the applicant’s transcript without a title (or with a vague title such as “Mathematics II”); a list of all courses taken or planned that do not yet appear on a transcript.