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Frequently Asked Questions

This is a list of frequently asked questions and links to additional resources related to the launch of the new school. If you have a question not addressed here, please email us.

No. What is currently the Department of Computer Science will become The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, and it will be a part of The Grainger College of Engineering.

No. The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science will not have any departments.

No.  The names of undergraduate degrees and graduate degrees offered by the new school will be the same as those offered by the Department of Computer Science. This includes all Computer Science degrees (BS in Computer Science, MCS in Computer Science, MS in Computer Science, MS in Bioinformatics (Computer Science concentration), and PhD in Computer Science).

No. Since the department or school is not listed on diplomas from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, students’ diplomas will remain the same. 

No. The course designations will not change. For example, CS 225 will remain CS 225.

No. At The Grainger College of Engineering, the Computer Engineering major resides in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and this will remain the same.

No. There will be no change – CE majors will continue to have the same registration priorities for computer science courses. 

No. The data science majors will remain in their home colleges. 

No. The iSchool will remain a separate school. 

No, the transcripted information will remain the same. 

No, they will not.   Each of these programs is a single major that leads to a Bachelor of Science degree in the college that is home to Mathematics, Statistics, or the X discipline, respectively. 

No. The online master’s degree programs offered by the Department of Computer Science will continue as part of the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science. This includes both the online MCS and the MCS-DS track of the MCS which has a focus on data science.

No. The MCS program offered by the Department of Computer science in Chicago will continue as part of the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science.

Depending on context, alumni may use their best judgment, but one example might be: Siebel School of Computing and Data Science (formerly the Department of Computer Science).



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