Undergraduate: BA, BS, Minor
Graduate: MS, PhD
Combined: BS/MS (accelerated), BA/MBA

Upon admission, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering writes to inform students of their faculty advisors. Students should make an appointment with their advisor as soon as possible to discuss a program of study and to choose between the BA and the BS program. Students must see their advisor at least once a semester thereafter. Under current departmental guidelines, students may freely switch degree programs (from B.A. to B.S. or from B.S. to B.A.) at any time, but must complete all appropriate courses.

For the BS program, a minimum GPA of 2.5 in technical courses is required to remain in good standing as well as graduate. This is the GPA among all CSE, MTH, STA, and EAS courses used below as required courses, except those courses taken to satisfy the science sequence requirement.

For the BA program, a minimum GPA of 2.5 in technical courses is required to remain in good standing as well as graduate. This is the GPA among all CSE, MTH, STA, MGT and EAS courses used below as required courses, except those courses taken to satisfy the science sequence requirement and external concentration.

No required courses may be taken Pass-Fail or Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory.

Prerequisites are satisfied with a grade of C- or better.

Departmental Senior Standing is achieved when students complete a minimum of:
2 of CSE3XX-level courses for BA Program in CS and
3 of CSE3XX level course for BS program in CS or CEN

Generally, incoming freshmen and transfer students are provisionally accepted into the program (provided completed coursework is satisfactory) and progress is tracked until successful completion of requirements are satisfied, at which time students are fully accepted. Incoming transfer students, who have successfully completed the prerequisite admission courses, are fully accepted. Specific GPA requirements and prerequisite admission courses are stated in the acceptance criteria outlined in each degree program.

Transfer students must first apply to the university and meet the university transfer-admission GPA requirements before consideration for admission to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Computing courses taken outside the department, and offered as substitutes for computer science courses, are evaluated individually by the Undergraduate Affairs Committee. Most courses taken from a recognized college-level computer science department are acceptable. Data-processing courses are generally not acceptable as substitutes for any computer science course. Experience has shown that any course with a specific programming language in its title is often a skills course rather than a computer science course. The student must provide evidence to help the department determine whether courses taken at another institution are equivalent to UB courses; course syllabi are generally preferable to catalog descriptions as catalog descriptions do not provide enough detail for accurate evaluation. Additional information on course equivalencies may be found on the university's transfer and articulation website at: http://taurus.buffalo.edu.