Courses

The course work for the programme will consist of five categories, as follows.

1. Core courses

   Programming Languages
   Basic Programming Laboratory
   Design and Analysis of Algorithms
   Theory of Computation
   

2. Foundational Topics courses

   Advanced Algorithms
   Distributed Systems
   Mathematical Logic in Computer Science
   Computer Systems Verification
   Algorithmic Complexity Theory
   Operations Research
   Cryptography and Computer Security
   Probability and Statistics

3. Systems courses

   Networks
   Databases
   Compilers
   Software Engineering
   Advanced Computer Organization
   Digital Systems Design

4. Advanced level courses

   These will be offered from a list that will be updated periodically, including courses such as Mobile Computing, Computational Biology, Computational Geometry and Symbolic Computation.

5. Project/Dissertation

To earn an MSc, a student must complete the equivalent of 16 regular courses, normally over a period of four semesters. These 16 courses must include all four Core courses and a project/dissertation.

Each advanced level course is equivalent to two regular courses and the project/dissertation is equivalent to four regular courses. At the discretion of the admissions committee, a student who has already completed any of the core courses as an undergraduate may substitute these courses by a suitable number of alternative courses to make up the overall course requirements.

Detailed information about the courses is available at the CMI website, http://www.cmi.ac.in.