Graduate Program Prerequisites

The following UAB courses, or equivalent, are required of all applicants to the graduate program:

• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (CS 201)
• Discrete Structures (CS 250)
• Object Oriented Design (CS 302)
• Algorithms and Data Structures (CS 303)
• Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming (CS 330)

The following UAB courses are also required, any three of which may be taken at the 500-level and counted toward the M.S. program:

• Automata and Formal Language Theory (CS 350 / 550)
• Programming Languages (CS 405 / 505)
• Software Engineering (CS 420 / 520)
• Operating Systems (CS 433 / 533)

Mathematics background equivalent to differential and integral calculus (two terms of calculus), statistics, and linear algebra is required with mathematical logic, differential equations and advanced calculus highly recommended.