Did you know that at Villanova...
- Recent graduates are employed at Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, First Consulting Group, GlaxoSmithKline, Honeywell, Morgan Stanley, Paine Webber, QVC, Unisys, NSA, Grumman, Netscape, Towers Perrin, Vanguard, AT&T Government Systems, and Microsoft.
- Computer science majors can participate in a study abroad program in Rome with an internship at the Vatican Web Office.
- The Department's Center of Excellence in Enterprise Technology has received $4.3 million for a collaborative research project with Gestalt, LLC that will provide additional research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
- Competitive scholarships are available for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Those for Lockheed-Martin and Gestalt LLC also include summer internships.
- The opportunity to participate in the ViCS Scholarship Program. Scholarships worth up to $3125 per year in addition to all other Villanova aid are available for majors with demonstrated financial need.
- Students can receive academic credit for computing internships. The department web site has more information.
- The computer science program is one of about 220 programs across the country that are accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc.
- Student
researchers work side by side with faculty members and are supported on their grants. Current projects include robot control systems for Mindstorms robots personalization techniques for web searches digital libraries and the semantic web, and real-time network reconfiguration and repair.
- Excellent students may enroll in the five-year BS/MS program in computer science, increasing their value in the eyes of potential employees.
- Graduates of the computer science program include the CEOs of software development and game manufacturing companies, a technical guru for Industrial Light and Magic, a faculty member at the College of New Jersey, a partner in Accenture, a VP for IT at Fidelity Investments, and many technical staff members at Lockheed Martin, BoozAllen Hamiton, and Merrill Lynch.
- Many majors choose to supplement their program of study with a concentration in cognitive science or courses in bioinformatics.
