Financial
assistance is available to graduate students on a competitive basis. Financial
assistance may be in the form of a fellowship, teaching assistantship,
or a student job. The amount of money available for fellowships research
assistantships, and teaching assistantships varies each year. Further
fellowship and assistantship information may be obtained from the Dean
of the Graduate School. Both in-state and out-of-state tuition is waived
for students on assistantships. Students can not be considered for teaching
assistantships until they have completed at least 18 hours of graduate
work.
Applicants
for financial assistance must be made before March 15th each year to
Dean
of the Graduate School
Southern Station, Box 5024
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5024
Phone: (601) 266-4369
Graduate
students can work for up to 20 hours of work per week. Wages may vary
depending on the background of the student.
Applications
for student jobs should be directed to the Chair of the Department of
Computer Science and Statistics.
Termination
from Program
A student may be terminated from the either of the master's degree programs
for any of 5 different reasons.
A student
fails the comprehensive examination for the second time.
A student
fails his/her thesis or project defense for the second time.
A conditionally
admitted student makes a grade below "B" in his/her first
9 hours of classwork.
A student
fails his/her 12-hour Qualifying Examination (see Section 12.0).
More
than 6 semester hours of "D's" (or below) or more than 3 semester
hours of "F's" are attained.
Hardware
and Software Facilities Available to Students
Hardware
available to students include :
A Digital
AlphaServer model 4100 with 1 GB of RAM and 20 GB of disk space running
Digital UNIX. This computer serves as the department's main computer.
It supports the Oracle database system along with C, C++, Fortran, Cobol
and Ada programming. It supports email and provides World Wide Web services.
It is intended to replace the computers listed in items 3, 4 and 5.
A dual
CPU Pentium II computer with 512 MB of RAM and 36 GB of disk space space
running Linux. This computer serves World Wide Web pages and supports
programming in C, C++, Pascal, Fortran and Ada. It also supports the
Oracle database system. This computer serves as a file server for computer
science labs.
About
80 Pentium computers in 3 labs maintained by the department. These computers
support both the Windows NT and Linux operating systems.
A color
scanner is available to scan images in one Computer Science lab.
Numerous
PC's spread out among several labs throughout the campus.
A Pentium
II system with 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB of disk space running Linux.
This computer is a campus-wide system providing Internet access.
All the
computers are connected to the campus Ethernet which is connected to
the Internet.
Software
includes:
Standard
programming languages such as Pascal, Ada, C, C++, FORTRAN and COBOL
Specialized
languages such as APL, Prolog, LISP and SmallTalk
Assembly
Language
Statistical
packages such as SAS and SPSS/SCSS
Database
packages including ORACLE and Microsoft ACCESS
Graphics
software including MS-Windows, X-Windows and Motif
Word
processing facilities including Microsoft Word and TeX/LaTeX
Symbolic
mathematical analysis using Maple and SciLab.
Questions
Concerning the Master's Degree Program
If there are any further questions concerning the USM Computer Science
Master's Degree Program, please contact:
Director
of Graduate Studies
Computer Science and Statistics
Southern Station, Box 5106
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5106
(601)266-4949
