Post-Master Degrees

• PhD in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
  The doctoral program offered by the CEIE Department is unique in Virginia, incorporating the varied areas of civil engineering with a focus on infrastructure operation and management. The program is structured to prepare students for advanced leadership positions in research and development in the public or private sector, academics, and government. Students may elect to study in the areas of IT and computing in civil engineering, environmental engineering, water and waste water engineering, construction engineering and management, infrastructure security and engineering, structural engineering, or transportation engineering. Requirements include course work, qualifying exams, a teaching requirement, dissertation proposal defense, and dissertation research and defense.
  
  
• PhD in Computer Science
  This nationally ranked program is run by the Computer Science department and offers research opportunities in many different areas including Algorithms and Theory of Computation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Computer Vision, Computer Science Education, Databases, Data Mining, Graphics and Image Processing, Information Systems, Languages, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Software Engineering, Security, and Systems and Networking.
  
  
• PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  The PhD program in Electrical and Computer Engineering prepares students to do original research on ECE topics and to become technical leaders in their fields. Students may choose a research emphasis in areas such as communications, networking, computer engineering, control and robotics, signal processing, electronics, and bioengineering.
  
  
• PhD in Information Technology
  This program is administered by the office of the senior associate dean. Students may conduct their doctoral research under the supervision of any eligible faculty member of any of the school's departments. A student may select to obtain this degree without a specific concentration or in one of the following concentrations: Information Security, Information Systems and Software Engineering. Choosing a concentration may impose additional requirements and may reduce the program flexibility.
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• PhD in Statistical Science
  The Department of Statistics offers a PhD program in Statistical Science, replacing the PhD in Information Technology concentration Statistical Science. Research areas of key departmental faculty in the program include statistical signal processing, biostatistics, statistical genetics, statistical graphics, and data exploration. The Department has had a history of producing top quality PhD students from the former Information Technology program; many of them are employed in academia, the federal government, and technology firms. The terminal degree “PhD in Statistical Science” represents the highest academic attainment for a statistician, and as such, requires in-depth knowledge of modern statistical theory and practice.
  
  
• PhD in Systems Engineering and Operations Research
  The PhD in SEOR curriculum offers a unique integration of systems engineering and operations research. This integration gives students a strong analytical and computational capability on the one hand and an overarching systems perspective that is well-grounded in application on the other. No other department in the nation offers a PhD degree program that covers systems engineering and operations research in this integrated manner.
  
  
• Engineer Degree in Information Technology
  This program is administered by the office of the senior associate dean. This is not a doctoral degree, but it allows students to combine advanced course work of the PhD degree in Information Technology with an applied project. Students may conduct their project under the supervision of any eligible faculty member of any of the school's departments.