Graduate Program and Application Criteria

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University offers three degree options for graduate students to pursue advanced degrees: a Masters of Science degree without thesis, a Masters of Science degree with thesis, and a Doctoral degree.

The graduate curricula include a broad array of foundational material, such as cloud computing, software engineering, computer architectures, embedded systems, hardware and software security, wireless communications and networks, signal and information processing, bio-electrical engineering, nano- and micro-electronics, biosensors, that is intended to give masters and doctoral students the training needed to engage in state-of-the-art research.

A broad selection of additional advanced classes provide students with training beneficial for engaging in industry employment upon graduation. Many Masters students are actively placed in software engineering positions in high-tech industries as well as in financial industries.

Members of the electrical and computer engineering department are actively engaged in research in areas ranging from wireless systems to future Internet design, sensor networks, signal processing, control theory, low-power electronics, materials, hardware and software engineering, computer graphics and vision, robotics, and virtual reality technologies.

Students have access to cutting-edge research laboratories, such as the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), and the Nanofabrication Core Facility (NCF). Many Ph.D. students pursue careers in academia and industrial research laboratories.