Student Perspective
“The professors here encourage students to go to office hours for anything, even to talk about material that may not be related to the class.”
Aparna Gajulapalli ’24
Computer Science
Palo Alto, California
Excellence in STEM | This is Lawrence
In a national ranking that measures the percentage of a school's STEM graduates who eventually earn a Ph.D., Lawrence comes in at No. 17.
Theory of Computation
A study of programming in the abstract, leading to an understanding of the precise nature and limitations of computing machines. Topics include universal computing machines such as Turing machines, decidable and undecidable predicates, regular and pushdown automata, and regular and context-free grammars.
In it to win it
Represent Lawrence as you compete in competitions like the Berkeley and Princeton Hackathons or the Association for Machine Learning competition to win research funding as well as bragging rights. Find hackathon opportunities and more with our Technology and Data Science Career Community.
Code beyond the computer lab
Computer science major students work with collaborative technology in classrooms, build hardware in Lawrence’s Makerspace, study game systems, and share research spaces with other programs.
The Chandler Senior Experience
As a computer science degree-seeking senior, you'll complete an independent project and present it to fellow seniors and your professors during the Computer Science Senior Seminar.
Recent Senior Experience projects include:
- Stock Price Movement Prediction with Qualitative Data
- Building an Atari 2600 Emulator
- Autotracking for The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Branching Paths
Where will your computer science journey take you? Students and faculty work closely together across different branches of the field providing opportunities to combine your computer science studies with work in mathematics or statistics and data science.
Computer Science Outcomes
With a computer science degree from Lawrence, your next step could include graduate studies at top institutions or a career at Apple, Google, Microsoft, or others.