With department approval, students in the MS-CS and MCS programs can transfer credit for CS courses taken as a non-degree student, CS-related courses transferred from other departments at Illinois Tech, and CS courses transferred from other universities..
Only courses applicable to degree requirements can be transferred for credit and no course can have been used toward another degree. Each course must have been passed with a grade of "B" or better. Combining all sources in the sections below, a grand total maximum of 9 credit hours of courses may be transferred.
With department approval, courses that cannot be transferred for credit may be used to meet prerequisite requirements for other courses.
Courses taken from the CS department before starting the Master's program (typically as a Non-Degree Special Graduate Student) may be transferred to the degree program. Note: CS 200, 201, 401, 402, and 403 cannot be transferred.
Graduate CS courses taken at other colleges or universities may be transferred to the degree program. (Non-CS courses cannot be transferred.) Course transfers must be explicitly approved by the CS department: Approval is given on a case-by-case basis, and there is no guarantee that a course will be given transfer credit.
Each course to be transferred:
For transferring CS coursework from other universities, there is a credit hour limit of 6 hours depending on whether the student has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (6 hours) or not in Computer Science (3 hours). In either case, the grand total maximum of 9 credit hours transferred still applies.
Course transfers must be explicitly approved by the CS department. Department approval is given on a case-by-case basis, and there is no guarantee that a course will be given transfer credit.
CS-related courses in other departments at Illinois Tech can be transferred to the degree program, but only if they appear in the list of approved courses below. The courses can be taken as a Computer Science student, or they may have been taken before starting the degree program.
For transferring non-CS coursework from other IIT departments, there is a credit hour limit of 6 hours depending on whether the student has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (6 hours) or not in Computer Science (3 hours). In either case, the grand total maximum of 9 credit hours transferred still applies.
Note: The courses below do not count as 500-level CS courses for purposes of the MSCS and MCS coursework requirements.
MATH 522, 525, 527, 530, 532, 535, 536, 540, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 548, 550, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 561, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 571, 573, 574, 577, 578, 579, 581, 582, 584,586, 587, 589, 590
BME 506, 538
BIOL 550, 562
CHE 508, 530, 535, 536, 560
CHEM 513
CAE 523, 534, 576
ECE 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 510, 511, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 528, 531, 533, 535, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 563, 565, 566, 570, 583, 585, 587
Note: Credit will not be given for both ECE 585 and CS 570.
PHIL 574
No ITM courses can be applied to graduate CS degrees.
IDX 542, 562
MMAE 501, 502, 503, 517, 539, 539, 540, 544, 545, 547, 549, 551, 570
Students in the Master of CS with Specialization in Business and Master of CS with Specialization in Finance programs are required to take courses from approved lists. (See the descriptions of the specializations for details.) The same courses can be transferred by students not in these specializations.
From the Business specialization: BUS 510, 550, MBA 501, 502, 504, 506, 509, 511
From the Finance specialization: MSF 502, 504, 505, 506, 526 MAX 522