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The Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for graduate studies from outstanding students with undergraduate or Master's degrees in Computer Science or related disciplines.

The Department

The Department is the foremost computer science department in Canada and it ranks among the top in the world.

Our graduates hold positions in major corporations and are on the faculties of most Canadian universities as well as leading universities in the United States (Brown, Maryland, MIT, Pennsylvania, Washington, etc.) and in other countries. Many of our graduates have received prestigious awards, including the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and five Presidential Young Investigator Awards in the United States.

Our faculty have received international acclaim for their research. Their awards and honours include the Turing Award (Steve Cook, 1982), the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence presented by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (Ray Reiter, 1993), the Order of Canada (Calvin Gotlieb, 1996), the Killam Award in Engineering/Computer Science (Steve Cook, 1997), as well as several prestigious fellowships (Royal Society of London, Royal Society of Canada, Steacie, Killam, ACM, IEEE, AAAI, etc.). We attract visiting researchers of international stature. Our research funding is the highest per capita among Canadian computer science departments.

Currently affiliated with the Department are 55 faculty members, 15 postdoctoral fellows, research associates and visitors, 170 graduate students, and 450 undergraduate majors and specialists. We foster a warm, friendly atmosphere in a creative and highly stimulating environment for advancing the science of computing through teaching, research and related activities.

For an introduction to the Department see http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS.
For more information on our faculty see http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/People/Faculty.
Theses' titles and abstracts of recent graduates of the department are shown in http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/Grad/Theses.

Programs of study and research areas

The Department offers a graduate program leading to the degrees of Master of Science (M.Sc.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). The program consists of courses and research conducted under faculty member supervision. Our research interests span the breadth of programming languages and methodology, software engineering, operating systems, compilers, distributed computation, networks, numerical analysis and scientific computing, financial computation, data structures, algorithm design, computational complexity, cryptography, combinatorics, graph theory, computer algebra, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, neural networks, computational linguistics, computer vision, robotics, databases, information systems, graphics, animation, interactive computing, multimedia, human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work and learning.

For more information on our graduate program see http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/Grad/Program

Financial assistance

All full-time degree graduate students receive financial support. Support covers 17 months for the M.Sc. degree and five years total for both the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. Support includes scholarships offered by the Canadian, Ontario, and other government agencies (NSERC, OGS and OGSST), University of Toronto Scholarships and Department of Computer Science research assistantships.

For more information on financial assistance available to graduate students see http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/Grad/Finance

Toronto

Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the sixth largest in North America. It consistently ranks as one of the best cities in the world in which to live. It is a safe, clean, vibrant metropolis offering a wide range of cultural and recreational activities. More information on Toronto is found in the following web sites: http://www.math.utoronto.ca/toronto, http://www.toronto.com and http://www.torinfo.com.

Applications and contact information

Application forms are available starting around August each year. The deadline for applications for graduate studies is February 1. More details on the admission requirements and application procedure are available at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/DCS/Grad/Program/index.html#AdmAppl.
The application material is available on-line to download. If you fullfill the minimum admission requirements and wish to apply, but do not succeed in downloading or printing the application material, send a brief message to grad-inq@cdf.utoronto.ca stating your name and mailing address and requesting an application package.
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If you have any thoughts, suggestions or queries, please feel free to contact us at www@cs.toronto.edu

Last updated December 8, 1999