New Professional MCS Student Registration Guidelines - First Semester (Fall Term) General Advising
We are excited you are joining our team this August! This site is designed to give you guidance on registering for fall courses. You are in a professional, non-thesis, self-funded master's program. There is no research in this master's degree. Viveka Kudaligama, Mary Beth Kelley, and Kara MacGregor serve as advisors for this program and can be reached at kudaliga@illinois.edu, mkelley@illinos.edu or kmacgregor@illinois.edu.
Please review the Professional MCS Planning Document to help guide you on the program requirements.
We recommend that you register as soon as possible. With increased enrollments in the CS department and on campus, CS courses tend to fill up quickly so we request that you register as soon as possible.
Steps to Complete for Course Registration
- To start the registration process, you must first setup your NetID and password. The instructions for this were given to you in your "official offer letter" from the Graduate College. If you missed the link, please go to http://www.grad.illinois.edu/quick-guide.
- Go to http://www.registrar.illinois.edu/registration/register.html to sign up for classes. To review the courses that will be offered in computer science, please visit the Fall 2015 CS Course Schedule.
Number of Minimum Credit Hours to Register for Fall 2015 Term
All Professional MCS students are required to register for at least 12 credit hours per semester and have up to 3 continuous semesters to complete the degree requirements.
Selecting Courses
For your first semester, we recommend that you select courses that interest you and start to complete the "Breadth Requirement". (see MCS Planning Document - link above) In addition, we recommend that you do a mix of 400 and 500 level courses. Graduate students are free to register for any 400 or 500-level course. If there is a pre-requisite for a course, it is your responsibility to ensure you have the prior knowledge required for the course. In addition, 400-level courses are introductory graduate level courses and can be taken for either 3 or 4 credits. If you select the 4 credit hour 400-level course, the faculty will usually have you do a project or paper for the extra credit hour. All 500-level courses are taken for 4 credit hours.