Rensselaer offers more than 145 programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. Students are encouraged to work in interdisciplinary that allow them to combine scholarly work from several departments or schools. The university provides rigorous, engaging, interactive learning environments and campus-wide opportunities for leadership, collaboration, and creativity. For almost two centuries, Rensselaer has maintained its reputation for providing an undergraduate education of undisputed intellectual rigor based on educational innovation in the laboratory, classroom, and studio. The Institute is especially well-known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development. One root, written into the school’s founding documents, is “...the application of science to the common purposes of life.” The second root, also built into the school’s origin, was the employment of unique educational strategies.

The department at Rice has a three-sided mission: to create knowledge, to disseminate knowledge, and to provide service to their communities - the local Rice community and the broader community beyond the campus. From anti lock brakes to airbags, secondary oil recovery to weather prediction, advanced imaging technology to digital enhancement in the cinema, computation is changing the world. Contrary to popular belief, the job market in computer science and information technology is robust and growing (a fact highlighted by the recent ACM task force on Outsourcing, chaired by their own Moshe Vardi).

Roger Williams University is an independent, co-educational institution with a focus on undergraduate learning, paired with strong, related master's degree programs. The University is also home to Rhode Island's only law school. No matter what their major, their transdisciplinary general education program provides all Roger Williams graduates with a comprehensive foundation in the liberal arts, where they develop the problem solving, reasoning, communications and teamwork attributes that employers seek. The Computer Information Systems major prepares students for careers that integrate state-of-the-art concepts and technologies with a solid foundation in established business computing practice. This combination of disciplines provides students with the skills employers need for maintaining today's systems as well as the skills required for the development of next-generation systems. The program is intensely hands-on, as the instructional focus is on building solutions to business problems.

From the modest normal school begun 75 years ago, Rowan University has become an extraordinary comprehensive institution that has improved the quality of life for the citizens of New Jersey and the surrounding states. Rowan University has evolved from its humble beginning in 1923 as a normal school, with a mission to train teachers for South Jersey classrooms, to a comprehensive university with a strong regional reputation. A leading public institution, Rowan University combines liberal education with professional preparation from the baccalaureate through the doctorate. As a Computer Science major, students master current technology and develop the versatility needed to adapt in this fast evolving field. The program focuses on developing students as flexible professionals equipped to learn new technologies and principles. Students will specialize in a specific area from software engineering, networking and operating systems, information technology, programming languages and compilers, and artificial intelligence.