UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN COMPUTING SCIENCES

Our undergraduate programs provide a thorough foundation in the principles and practices of computing, paving the way for a successful career and/or graduate studies.

Computer science students explore a broad spectrum of computing technologies and concepts.

WHY COMPUTING SCIENCES?

Cutting-edge Research

Our students are involved in cutting-edge research at Villanova working with professors on projects such as wearable tech, software refactoring and network load balancing "on the edge." Current work in artificial intelligence includes projects in machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision.

Vatican Internship Program

Our Vatican Internship Program, established in 2003, places students within various offices in and around the Vatican to work on website development, compatibility modifications, network modeling, virtual reality projects and more.

Community Connections

For more that 20 years, our department has maintained relationships with several Philadelphia junior high and high schools, providing them refurbished computers and education about computational thinking, coding and computer programming.

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RESEARCH CENTER

The interdisciplinary Center for Excellence in Enterprise Technology is dedicated to distinction in the discovery, dissemination and application of knowledge and solutions to contemporary software challenges. Home to the University’s CAVE—an immersive, virtual reality facility—the Center promotes interactive learning across the University and through external academic and industry partnerships.

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WHO WE ARE

PURSUING A PASSION FOR DATA SCIENCE

Ike Osuagwu ’20 CLAS hopes to pursue a career in data science. He told his advisor—Frank Klassner, PhD, of Computing Sciences—that he wanted to add a Chemistry minor to his Computer Science major, and Dr. Klassner drew up an academic plan for him, including contact names and areas of Computer Science that would help the most on Ike's career path. That support helped Ike concurrently take courses in software engineering and organic chemistry while a student-athlete on Villanova’s track and field and football teams—and fitting in a summer data science internship with a Philadelphia firm.

ENDLESS PROFESSIONAL POSSIBILITIES

“I naturally gravitated towards Computer Science because of the way a person can use logical and critical thinking, as well as creativity, to solve problems,” says Cassidy King ’23 CLAS. “Computer Science provides endless opportunities in business and in a wide variety of professional industries. Because of this, I dove into it and into learning everything I could about it.” In the summer after her freshman year, Cassidy landed an internship with The MITRE Corporation, a large nonprofit that handles federally funded research projects and contracts.

LANGUAGE AND TECH

Ander Swartz ’23 CLAS, a Computer Science major, is fascinated by natural language processing. Ander is a member of the Word Recognition and Auditory Perception Lab at Villanova, which studies how human listeners recognize speech and understand spoken language. He is developing computational models of speech perception and spoken word recognition. “My research is meaningful to me because it showcases how complex natural language is, and how computers can help us better understand each other.”