CSEE at Columbia University

A suggested order for the 18 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CSEE coursework.

• COMS W3157ADVANCED PROGRAMMING.opens 4 courses (2 directly)
• COMS W4118OPERATING SYSTEMS I.opens 1 course (1 directly)
• CSEE W4823Advanced Logic Design.opens 1 course (1 directly)
• CSEE W4868SYSTEM-ON-CHIP PLATFORMS.opens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CSEE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 18 CSEE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 13 more CSEE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CSEE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at CSEE E6868

  1. COMS W3134Data Structures in Java.
  2. COMS W3157ADVANCED PROGRAMMING.
  3. CSEE W4868SYSTEM-ON-CHIP PLATFORMS.
  4. CSEE E6868EMBEDDED SCALABLE PLATFORMS.

• 4 courses deep, ending at CSEE W6180

  1. COMS W3134Data Structures in Java.
  2. COMS W3157ADVANCED PROGRAMMING.
  3. COMS W4118OPERATING SYSTEMS I.

• 3 courses deep, ending at CSEE W4840

  1. CSEE W3827FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SYSTS.
  2. CSEE W4823Advanced Logic Design.
  3. CSEE W4840EMBEDDED SYSTEMS.

• 2 courses deep, ending at CSEE W4121

  1. CSOR W4246ALGORITHMS FOR DATA SCIENCE.
  2. CSEE W4121COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR DATA SCIENCE.

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on CSEE sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Franjo Ivancic
• Henning Schulzrinne
• Janet Kayfetz
• Luca Carloni
• Martha Kim
• Michael Theobald
• Mingoo Seok
• Simha Sethumadhavan
• Vishal Misra

Columbia professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CSEE yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

CSEE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Columbia campus feed.