Computer Science, MSCS—Align (Boston)

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Fundamentals

• All of:
  • CS 5001 — Intensive Foundations of Computer Science
  • CS 5003 — Recitation for CS 5001

Discrete Structures

• CS 5002 — Discrete Structures

Object-Oriented Design

• All of:
  • CS 5004 — Object-Oriented Design
  • CS 5005 — Recitation for CS 5004

Additional ALIGN courses

• All of:
  • CS 5008 — Data Structures, Algorithms, and Their Applications within Computer Systems
  • CS 5009 — Recitation for CS 5008

Algorithms

• CS 5800 — Algorithms

Breadth Areas

From the catalog

Select three courses from at least two of the three following breadth areas:

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
    • CS 5100 — Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
    • CS 5150 — Game Artificial Intelligence
    • CS 5200 — Database Management Systems
    • CS 5330 — Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
    • CS 6120 — Natural Language Processing
    • CS 6140 — Machine Learning
    • CS 6200 — Information Retrieval
    • CS 6220 — Data Mining Techniques
    • CS 6240 — Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
    • CS 7140 — Advanced Machine Learning
  • Systems and Software
    • CS 5400 — Principles of Programming Language
    • CS 5500 — Foundations of Software Engineering
    • CS 5520 — Mobile Application Development
    • CS 5600 — Computer Systems
    • CS 5610 — Web Development
    • CS 5700 — Fundamentals of Computer Networking
    • CS 5850 — Building Game Engines
    • CS 6410 — Compilers
    • CS 6510 — Advanced Software Development
    • CS 6620 — Fundamentals of Cloud Computing
    • CS 6650 — Building Scalable Distributed Systems
  • Theory and Security
    • CS 6760 — Privacy, Security, and Usability
    • CS 7805 — Complexity Theory
    • CY 5770 — Software Vulnerabilities and Security
    • CY 6740 — Network Security

Electives

From the catalog

Complete 12 semester hours from the following:

CS 5100 to CS 7980

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • CS 5097 — Mixed Reality
  • Any CS course numbered 5100–7980
  • CS 7990 — Thesis
  • CS 8674 — Master’s Project
  • CS 8982 — Readings
  • CY 5001 — Cybersecurity: Technologies, Threats, and Defenses
  • CY 5010 — Cybersecurity Principles and Practices
  • CY 5130 — Computer System Security
  • CY 5210 — Information System Forensics
  • CY 6120 — Software Security Practices
  • DADS 7305 — Machine Learning Operations
  • DS 5110 — Essentials of Data Science
  • DS 5230 — Unsupervised Machine Learning and Data Mining

GPA requirements

• 36-44 total semester hours required Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under computer-science-mscsalign-boston, and the official page is the authority.