“It’s so not programming,” Burge said. “If I had to sit down and code all day, I never would have continued. This is not traditional computer science.” For students like Burge, expanding their ...

Technology shapes how we work, play, connect, and discover. At Northwestern, we don’t just keep up—we push the boundaries of what’s possible. As a hub for bold, interdisciplinary research, we connect ...

For quite some time, parents and their college-bound teenagers have understandably been focused on what kind of return on investment their child’s college degree can generate in exchange for their ...

Why did you decide to come to UMass Amherst? Maahi: UMass Amherst ticked a lot of my boxes when it came to picking my college. It is obviously a very big school so I am always hearing about new ...

In the College of Engineering, the first-year student experience is similar across undergraduate majors. Your second and third years have distinctive course requirements and electives. Here we can ...

Lured by the prospect of high-salary, high-status jobs, college students are rushing in record numbers to study computer science. Now, if only they could get a seat in class. On campuses across the ...

Computer engineering jobs combine computer science and engineering fundamentals in business, IT, and academic environments. If you're thinking about earning a degree to enter the field, identifying ...

Computer science student Kevin Sun poses inside the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on Centennial Campus. Photos by Jackson Lesan. When it comes to getting the full college experience, Kevin Sun may have ...

When little kids draw a scientist, even a computer scientist, “they always draw a man in a lab coat, for some reason,” computer science professor Gloria Townsend says. “A pocket protector, glasses ...

A lot of students took the advice to learn to code. Since the Great Recession left technology as a rare spot of optimism in American industry, computer science has been among the fastest-growing ...