Ph.D. in Computer Science
A Ph.D. student must complete a minimum of 60 credits of coursework beyond the Bachelor's degree or a minimum of 30 credits of coursework beyond the Master's degree. The degree requirements for the Ph.D. degree are found at www.cs.montana.edu/current-students-phd.html.
Required courses include:
| CSCI 532 | Algorithms | 3 |
| CSCI 538 | Computability | 3 |
| Doctoral Thesis (CSCI 690) | 18 | |
| And four courses from the following: | ||
| CSCI 520 | Distributed Systems | 3 |
| CSCI 534 | Computational Geometry | 3 |
| CSCI 535 | Computational Topology | 3 |
| CSCI 540 | Advanced Database Systems | 3 |
| CSCI 546 | Advanced Artificial Intelligence | 3 |
| CSCI 547 | Machine Learning | 3 |
| CSCI 548 | Reasoning Uncertainty | 3 |
| CSCI 550 | Advanced Data Mining | 3 |
| CSCI 551 | Adv. Computational Biology | 3 |
| CSCI 566 | Advanced Networking | 3 |
| ESOF 522 | Empirical Software Engr | 3 |