Computer ScienceBS
Outcomes
Students gain expertise and experience in all phases of software development, including design, architecture, implementation, testing, and deployment. Students will become effective in communicating and operating in a team environment. Students gain exposure to many different software languages, technologies, and platforms. The hands-on and immersive experience is at the heart of this program.
Opportunities
Students gain exposure to robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, cybersecurity, virtual reality, data science, and application development. Students prepare for these roles: software developer, software engineer, data scientist, data analyst, software tester, security analyst, and application developer.
Specializations
Students can enhance their focus in their Computer Science B.S. degree with one of the following specializations.
Data is foundational in business, medicine, and technology. All companies and sectors use data to understand operating environments, capture business intelligence, and build models to predict or automate behaviors and practices.
Data science and engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary STEM field involving research and applications throughout all areas of science and engineering.
This specialization enables a student to participate in the transformation of data into intelligence actively.
Cybersecurity is one of the essential aspects of computing and society today. Organizations worldwide are evaluating, responding, and protecting against cyberattacks every second.
Cybersecurity involves information security, network security, digital forensics,
and cyber- physical systems.
This specialization enables a student to actively participate in all the aspects of software, data, network, and system security.
How humans interact with computers and software is a highly regarded study area. The products used every day involve user interface and user experience design paradigms. Companies strive to optimize the experience with their products around effectiveness and efficiency.
This specialization will emphasize user interface design, virtual reality (VR), digital image processing, mobile computing, simulation, human factors engineering, and computer vision.
Computer Science and Engineering at South Dakota Mines
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Computer Science (BS) is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET http://www.abet.org.
Expand your horizons
Course CatalogPotential Employers
Black Hills EnergyCNH and Raven Industries
Echostar
Epic Systems
Garmin
Golden West Telecommunications
Career Examples
Artificial Intelligence (Al)Augmented Reality (AR)
Computer Scientist
Data Scientist or Data Engineer
Database Administrator
High-Performance Computing (HPC)
Average Starting Salary
$82,998