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92%

UI CS Grads Who Are Employed or Continuing Their Education 6 Mos. After Graduation*

At 6 mos. our grads are earning from a min. $46K to a max. $129K per year.

*or not seeking employment

71%

UI Undergrad CS Students Receiving Job Offers Before Graduation

...with an additional 17% receiving job offers within 3 months of graduation.

92%

UI CS Grads Saying Their Employment is Related to Their Studies

Additionally, 94% say their employment is related to their career goals.

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UIowa CS Grads Hit the Ground Running!

Career and earnings statistics for all of our CS undergrad programs are consistently strong.

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News and Announcements

The Gazette: Leepfrog's Lee Brintle (CS/MCS Alum) "Higher ed’s 'unsung, cool front end'”

Monday, March 23, 2026
"Brintle intended to major in physics, but switched to computer science." After a few years working in software development for the university, Brintle and two partners launched Leepfrog in 1994 as a general-purpose software supplier. The company’s name comes from his 1989 internet handle, derived from his first name and middle initial. 'Writing internet software was a very weird, very obscure niche,” he said. “Windows 95 wasn’t even out yet, and it was very difficult to get connected to the internet.'"

Mashiat gets Accepted in the Scholarly Teaching Program

Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Professor Mashiat is accepted into the Scholarly Teaching Program, marking a significant achievement in their academic and professional development journey.

Generous Gift from Alum/Tech Leader Seeds New CS Scholarship Fund

Tuesday, March 17, 2026
The Department of Computer Science recently received a generous gift from Vetri Vellore and Jothi Vetrivelkumaran to establish the Vetrivel Family Scholarship Fund.
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Upcoming Events

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Final Exam - Runtime and Compiler Optimizations for Subgraph Matching Algorithms on GPUs (RSVP)

Monday, April 6, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MacLean Hall
Final Exam - PhD candidate Shihui Song: "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" (RSVP requested)
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ISE:5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- DR.TIANYU ZHANG

Thursday, April 9, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

From industrial robots and autonomous vehicles to smart manufacturing and other closed-loop cyber-physical systems, many emerging applications rely on wireless communication to carry sensing, control, and coordination traffic under tight timing and reliability requirements. In these real-time mission-critical systems (RT-MCSs), correct operation depends not only on functional correctness but also on whether messages are delivered within predictable and bounded time. This talk examines how 5G...

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Colloquium - "Transfer Learning for Individualized Prediction"

Friday, April 10, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome UIowa's Chao Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering who will share his approach to improving prediction accuracy when functional responses need to be inferred from limited data.
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Cindy Cohn in conversation with Rishab Nithyanand - "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance."

Friday, April 10, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Cindy Cohn will read from her new book, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, and will be joined in conversation by University of Iowa associate professor Rishab Nithyanand.

Library Workshops: A Guide to Scholarly Publishing—from Journals to Open Access

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Seamans Center

Are you unsure which journal to publish in? Have you ever wondered how to identify and avoid predatory publishers? What is the difference between traditional publishing and open access? This workshop will provide answers to these questions and more, and you’ll learn strategies for navigating the jungle of scholarly publishing. Bring your own questions too! Presented by Kari Kozak, director, Sciences and Engineering Libraries.

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