Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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 CSCI 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 83 CSCI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 25 more CSCI 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 CSCI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 7 courses deep, ending at CSCI 4400

  1. CSCI 1100Computer Science I
  2. CSCI 1200Data Structures
  3. CSCI 2200Foundations of Computer Science
  4. CSCI 2300Introduction to Algorithms
  5. CSCI 4380Database Systems
  6. CSCI 4350Data Science
  7. CSCI 4400X-informatics

• 7 courses deep, ending at CSCI 4500

  1. CSCI 1100Computer Science I
  2. CSCI 1200Data Structures
  3. CSCI 2200Foundations of Computer Science

• 6 courses deep, ending at CSCI 4030

  1. CSCI 1100Computer Science I
  2. CSCI 1200Data Structures
  3. CSCI 2200Foundations of Computer Science

• 6 courses deep, ending at CSCI 4180

  1. CSCI 1100Computer Science I
  2. CSCI 1200Data Structures
  3. CSCI 2200Foundations of Computer Science

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CSCI yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CSCI yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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