Admissions

• Introduction
• Why choose CS?
• Prospective Undergraduates
  • CS Major
  • The 5-Course CS Minor
  • Admission
  • Getting Started in CS
  • Scholarships & Fellowships
• Prospective Graduates
• Transfer Students

CS Minor overview

The CS minor is a good and easy way for you to get a solid background in computer science, no matter what your major is. Given the importance of computer literacy in allmost all other disciplines and professions, the CS minor may just be what makes your resume stand out from all the others.

The minor requires five computer science courses:

• CMPSCI 121 Introduction to Problem Solving Using the Computer (or equivalent)
• CMPSCI 187 Programming with Data Structures (or equivalent)
• Three computer science courses (200-level or higher, not including CMPSCI 305) within the Department of Computer Science at UMass-Amherst

Read about the goals of 121 and 187, and then learn more details of the minor on these pages.