As the 2024-25 academic year started at Iowa, the ranks of our graduate programs welcomed:

• 21 MCS and 9 PhD students (Computer Science) - 8 deferred admission to Spring or Fall 2025
• 9 MS and 3 PhD students (Informatics - IGPI)

They hail from China, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, South Korea, Taiwan, Türkiye, the United States, and Vietnam.

One PhD student is hyperlocal: coming to us from under 3 miles away!

Half of the 30 MCS|MS incoming students belong to our own Computer Science or Informatics U2G programs!

A special mention and welcome to Lawrence Deng and Brenden Latham, recipients of the 2024-25 Joseph Barkmeier and Ann Tice Computer Science Scholarship and Lawrence E. Sheets and Susan J. Sheets Graduate Fellowship, respectively.

This recognition supports strong performance as an undergraduate student and an indication of how much the department would value a student join our MCS and PhD programs. Recipients' comments on this accolade may be found here. We plan on "checking back" with this year's awardees in the Spring!

 The department hosted a welcome picnic on August 30 in City Park; a few pictures follow.