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Undergraduate Awards

Outstanding Computer Science Department Undergraduate of the Year

This award generally recognizes the single student with top academic performance across all computer science degrees. Selection is based on the GPA in all major courses and election by department faculty.

Distinguished Undergraduate Achievement Award in Computer Science / Cybersecurity / Information Technology / Software Engineering

This award is typically given to the top graduating student in each specialization area within computer science. Selection is by the election of department faculty from among those with the highest GPAs in computer science courses.

Computer Science Department Leadership and Service Award

This award recognizes extraordinary student leadership in the department, university, and the computer science profession. Selection is by department faculty election.

Distinguished Undergraduate Computing Research Award

This award recognizes extraordinary student contributions in computing research. Selection is by department faculty election.

Departmental Honors

Outstanding students earn departmental honors by demonstrating top scholastic and academic performance in the undergraduate degree program. A student whose GPA in all major courses is at least 3.4 may qualify by completing six additional credits of 300-level or graduate-level computer science electives with a grade of B or higher.

 

Note: Where GPA computations are used as part of determining awards, the GPAs are generally computed during the semester of graduation, and the major GPA is generally considered unusable if more than half the major credits have not been graded (in progress or transferred without a grade).

 

Note: Where GPA computations are used as part of determining awards, the GPAs are generally computed during the semester of graduation, and the major GPA is generally considered unusable if more than half the major credits have not been graded (in progress or transferred without a grade).