Educating Computer Professionals

The academic year 2007-08 is an important milestone for the students and faculty in Computer and Information Sciences at Regis University. It is the inaugural year of Regis Univeristy's School of Computer & Information Sciences (SCIS). The formation of our School comes into fruition as a natural evolution of the substantial number of programs of study in computing that Regis University offered under the old administrative structure that differentiated between graduate and undergraduate studies. Under the umbrella of the SCIS School, Regis now serves several thousand students in three academic departments with more than 185 faculty members. This indicates a School of significant proportions. Indeed, to be more precise, according to the most recent data (2005) by the National Science Foundation, Regis ranked 48th out of 1,274 institutions for the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in Computer Science and 9th out of 422 institutions for the number of master’s degrees awarded in Computer Science.

Of course the number of graduates is an indication of the impact that Regis carries in educating computer professionals throughout the United States but it is our governmental recognitions, academic and industrial partnerships and funding received that speaks volumes for the quality of the educational programs we offer.

For example, in 2007 our School was recognized as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. Additionally, we are one of the few academic partners of National Defense University’s Information Resource Management College in Washington, D.C. We are partners with numerous IT companies (Oracle, Sun Microsystems, IBM, etc.), and each year we attract significant funding from various sources in order to improve our educational and research programs.

Additionally, our School’s reach is extending beyond the United States. We have an innovative joint degree program with the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway that emphasizes global perspectives of software and information systems development and currently we are looking to forge similar partnerships with other academic institutions in Europe, Latin America and the Far East.

As the founding Dean of the School, I welcome each of you to our School for Computer & Information Sciences. If you are currently a student in our School I urge you to be proud of your studies. If you are a prospective student, I ask you to seriously consider joining us or contacting us if you have any questions about our academic programs.

Sincerely,
Stamos Karamouzis, Ph.D.
Dean