COMS at Iowa State University

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 COMS 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 110 COMS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 77 more COMS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on COMS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 14 courses deep, ending at COMS 6730

  1. STAT 3447Probability and Statistical Theory for Data Science
  2. STAT 3441Introduction to the Theory of Probability and Statistics I
  3. COMS 5720Principles of Artificial Intelligence
  4. COMS 6730Advanced Topics in Machine Learning

• 12 courses deep, ending at COMS 4340

  1. MATH 3170Theory of Linear Algebra
  2. MATH 2070Matrices and Linear Algebra
  3. PHYS 4220Foundations of Quantum Computing

• 11 courses deep, ending at COMS 4580X

  1. MATH 1600Survey of Calculus
  2. MATH 1430Preparation for Calculus
  3. COMS 1270Introduction to Computer Programming

• 11 courses deep, ending at COMS 4870

  1. MATH 1600Survey of Calculus
  2. MATH 1430Preparation for Calculus
  3. COMS 1270Introduction to Computer Programming

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for COMS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under COMS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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