EECS at Columbia University

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 EECS coursework.

• EECS E4321DIGITAL VLSI CIRCUITS.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 EECS 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 8 EECS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 36 more EECS 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 EECS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at EECS E4750

  1. COMS W3134Data Structures in Java.
  2. EECS E4750Heterogeneous Computing for Signal and Data Processing.

• 2 courses deep, ending at EECS E4764

  1. CSEE W4119COMPUTER NETWORKS.
  2. EECS E4764Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT).

• 2 courses deep, ending at EECS E6321

  1. EECS E4321DIGITAL VLSI CIRCUITS.
  2. EECS E6321Advanced digital electronic circuits.

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

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

• Alexei Ashikhmin
• Ching-yung Lin
• Kenneth Shepard
• Matthew Ziegler
• Micah Goldblum
• Predrag Jelenkovic
• Tanvir Ahmed Khan
• Xiaofan Jiang
• Zoran Kostic

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under EECS yet.

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Department events

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