Texas State University Computer Science

The mission of the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University is to advance the knowledge of computer science and technology through education, research, and service for the betterment of society. The Department of Computer Science at Texas State has the 3rd fastest-growing major at the university over the past ten years. In Fall 2020, there were 1,484 computer science majors, including 113 graduate Master’s students and 31 doctoral students. Computer science classes are relatively small at Texas State, usually with fewer than 40 students per class, and faculty members are uncommonly accessible to students outside of class time. Texas State Computer Science students won the IBM Mainframe Contest three times, five National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship awards, one Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, and one Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in Math, Physical Sciences and Engineering. Faculty members have won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers), three NSF CAREER Awards, an IBM Faculty Award, four Google Faculty Research Awards, a Facebook Faculty Research Award, and a Cisco Research Award and have served as a journal editor-in-chief, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest super-regional director, chair of international conferences, keynote speaker of top conferences, and Distinguished and Senior members of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Our dedicated staff and beautiful campus make this a great place to study Computer Science. Expand your mind and skills at Texas State University. Come grow with us!