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Institution/Program NameCountryWebsiteTuition/StipendCurrent/Recent StudentAdmin or faculty contactNotesNotes (ctd)
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Columbia University Bridge to PhDUnited States of America (USA)
https://bridgetophd.facultydiversity.columbia.edu/
Students get stipendApplicants should be underrepresented minorities (as defined by NSF) and US citizens or permanent residents.
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Columbia University CS MS ThesisUnited States of America (USA)
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/education/ms/MSThesis/
Charges tuitionVictor Lecomte (vlecomte@stanford.edu)ccp2133@columbia.edu
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CornellUnited States of America (USA)
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/ms
Students get stipendcs-ms@cornell.eduMasters of Science 2 year program with thesis
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Princeton UniversityUnited States of America (USA)
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/grad/degrees
Students get stipendLinda Cai (tcai@princeton.edu) gradinfo@cs.princeton.eduStudents are supported through TAships. Summer funding through RAship is possible, but not guaranteed.
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Rutgers UniversityUnited States of America (USA)
https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate/prospective-students
Charges tuition
Arwa (ame126@scarletmail.rutgers.edu) Vraj (vs652@scarletmail.rutgers.edu), or Chaitanya (sn650@scarletmail.rutgers.edu)
cs-ms-program@cs.rutgers.edu
https://finance.rutgers.edu/student-abc/tuition-feesWe have some grader and course assistant positions that MS students may apply for but there is no departmental funding at the MS level.
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UIUCUnited States of America (USA)
https://cs.illinois.edu/academics/graduate/ms-program
unknown
Aniket Murhekar (aniket2@illinois.edu)
kudaliga@illinois.edu
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University of Maryland, College Park
United States of America (USA)
https://www.cs.umd.edu
Students get stipend
sduppala@umd.edu Sharmila Duppala
thurst@umd.edu Tom HurstMost MS students are funded by TA-ships which provide stipend and tuition remission. Some students also get RA-ships with profs.
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University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States of America (USA)
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/graduate/ms-and-phd-program/
Students get stipend
Jongho Park (jongho.park@wisc.edu)
Angela Thorp (thorp@cs.wisc.edu)
The "Traditional MS program" support students with TAship or RAship
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EPFLSwitzerland
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/ic/education/master/research-scholars/
Students get stipend(denise.spicher@inf.ethz.ch).Interested students should apply to the regular MSc program and should express their willingness to participate in the Research Scholars MSc Program.
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ETH Zurich Master's Program in Computer ScienceSwitzerland
https://inf.ethz.ch/studies/master/application_admission.html
Other (see notes)
Vaclav Rozhon (vaclav.rozhon@inf.ethz.ch), Christoph Grunau (cgrunau@student.ethz.ch), Julian Portmann (pjulian@ethz.ch), and Manuela Fischer (manuela.fischer@inf.ethz.ch).
Denise Spicher (denise.spicher@inf.ethz.ch).
Tuition fees and merit-based scholarships (full and partial)
https://ethz.ch/students/en/studies/financial/scholarships/excellencescholarship.html
The tuition fee amounts to CHF 730 per semester. Additional compulsory semester fees are CHF 69. Once you are enrolled at ETH, you may contact the faculty directly to discuss the possibilities of employment in teaching or research assistant positions. Besides this,ETH Zurich supports outstanding students who wish to pursue a Master's degree studies by offering two scholarship programs called Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Program (ESOP) and ETH-D-INFK Scholarship. Please see the application website for more information on all of these topics.
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St. Petersburg StateRussia
https://math-cs.spbu.ru/en/msc-math-en/
Students get stipend
Yaroslav Alekseev: tolstreg@gmail.com, Anastasia Sofronova: ana.a.sofronova@gmail.com, Vladislav Makarov: vm450@yandex.ru
sokolov.dmt@gmail.com
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Ben Gurion Universtiy of the Negev (BGU)Israel
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/natural_science/cs/Pages/Education/Admission_Graduate.aspx
Students get stipend
Amit Behera <behera@post.bgu.ac.il>
Roni Yoeli <ryoeli@bgu.ac.il>Currently, prior to registration, the interested student needs to find an advisor. See here for a list of TCS faculty members, sorted by research interests: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/natural_science/cs/Pages/Research/Research-AreasFromDB_Theory.aspx
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TechnionIsrael
https://graduate.cs.technion.ac.il/en/graduate-studies/
Students get stipend
Yuval Dagan (yuvaldag@gmail.com).
Limor Gindin, limorg@cs.technion.ac.il
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Tel Aviv University (TAU) Computer Science M.Sc.Israel
https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/computer/msc
Students get stipendMs. Shachar Erez (mathcompsc@tauex.tau.ac.il)" Full time dedication Scholarship"
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), M.Sc. in Computer ScienceIsrael
https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/academics/programs-for-masters-degree
Students get stipendMs. Hagit Yaar-On (hagity@savion.huji.ac.il)"Scholarships for excelling students"
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Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/math/
Students get stipendShiri Ron: shiri.ron@mail.huji.ac.iladi.shimron@weizmann.ac.il.Information how to apply on https://www.weizmann.ac.il/feinberg/admissions/how-apply
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IIT Kanpur/MTech and MSIndia
https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/admissions/
Students get stipend
Diptajit Roy (diptajit@cse.iitk.ac.in)
admissions@cse.iitk.ac.inStipend is sufficient to cover tuition and living expenses.
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Indian Institute of ScienceIndia
https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/academics-all/degree-programs/
Students get stipend
Rahul Madhavan <mrahul@iisc.ac.in>, Vishakha Patil <patilv@iisc.ac.in>
Admin: <office.csa@iisc.ac.in>. Prof: Siddharth Barman <barman@iisc.ac.in>The MTech (Research) program is a 1 to 2.5 year research oriented masters program. Typically, a student does course work in the first semester and then spends the remaining time (up to 2 years) doing research. About a third of these students go for a PhD thereafter.
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Indraprashta Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-D)India
https://www.iiitd.ac.in/admission/mtech/2020
Other (see notes)Varun Ramanathan <varun16112@iiitd.ac.in>, Siddhartha Jain <siddhartha16269@iiitd.ac.in>, Agastya Vibhuti Jha <agastya17215@iiitd.ac.in>, Sankha S Basu <sankha@iiitd.ac.in>Risha Lal <risha@iiitd.ac.in>Program is generally paid (nominal fee) but students can easily get RAship under a Professor which pays even that nominal fee
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Microsoft Research IndiaIndia
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/research-fellows-program-at-microsoft-research-india/
Students get stipend
Abhishek Shetty (shetty@cs.cornell.edu), Tarun Kathuria (tarunkathuria@gmail.com)
MSR India HR team (msrindhr@microsoft.com), Vivek Seshadri (visesha@microsoft.com)
Not a masters program but similar intent. Students (typically after undergrad) spend 1-2 years in the Lab doing research and strengthening their research profile. In most cases, these students then pursue a PhD in various universities across the world.
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Max Planck Institute
Saarland University
Saarland Informatics Campus
Germany
https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en/studium-studies/
Other (see notes)
Alejandro Cassis <acassis@cs.uni-saarland.de>
Tanja Breinig <breinig@cs.uni-saarland.de>
Tuition/stipend:
Currently 580€ per year. For more details see
https://www.uni-saarland.de/en/study/organisation/fees/semester-fee.html
Max Planck Institute for Informatics is one of several leading research
institutes that together with Saarland University form Saarland
Informatics Campus: https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en/
Additional to the Masters programs, there are also several fully funded
PhD programs that integrate the courses of a Masters program:
https://www.cis.mpg.de/cs-max-planck/
https://www.graduateschool-computerscience.de/
https://www.imprs-trust.mpg.de/
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TU KaiserslauternGermany
https://www.informatik.uni-kl.de/en/studium/studiengaenge/bm-inf/sp.ma/
Other (see notes)Pascal Bergsträßer (p_bergstra15@cs.uni-kl.de)Anthony W. Lin (lin@cs.uni-kl.de)free (plus a small amount of social contribution around 500€ per year, https://www.uni-kl.de/en/studies/prior-to-enrolment/financial-aid/tuition-fees/)
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Ecole Normale Superieure de LyonFrance
http://informatique.ens-lyon.fr/en/academic-programs/master/master-computer-science
Other (see notes)Faculty contact: Daniel.Hirschkoff@ens-lyon.fr
Admin Contact: departement.info@ens-lyon.fr
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/en/studies/student-information/grants-and-scholarships#scholarshipsFees \approx 350 euros per year
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MPRI program (several institutions)France
https://wikimpri.dptinfo.ens-cachan.fr/
Other (see notes)The MPRI is a research-oriented master programme in computer science run jointly by the following institutions: University Paris Diderot (which is the coordinating institution), l’Ecole normale supérieure de la rue d’Ulm, Paris, henceforth ENS Ulm, and University Paris Saclay (which includes l’Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan), l’Ecole Polytechnique, and Telecom Paris Tech). Moreover the Master has special ties with the following universities and research institutions: University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), CNRS, INRIA, and CEA.”

Scholarships available https://wikimpri.dptinfo.ens-cachan.fr/doku.php?id=grants
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ORCOFrance
https://im2ag.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/parcours-operations-research-combinatorics-and-optimization-orco-2e-annee/parcours-operations-research-combinatorics-and-optimization-orco-masters-informatique-et-mathematiques-et-applications--111081.kjsp
Other (see notes)Luc Libralesso
luc.libralesso@uca.fr
https://librallu.gitlab.io/
There is a 1-year research masters program, ORCO (Operations Research, Combinatorics and Optimization), in Grenoble, France. The first semester consists of courses taught in English and the second, a research internship. Fees are a couple hundred Euro (same as for MPRI) and scholarships are available.

For application information, see here:
https://applicationform.grenoble-inp.fr/FSA/79?lang=en

For financial matters:
https://relint.ensimag.fr/MainEn/Tuition
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Nanjing UniversityChinahttp://tcs.nju.edu.cnStudents get stipend
Weiming Feng, fengwm@smail.nju.edu.cn fwm1994@gmail.com, Mingmou Liu, liu.mingmou@smail.nju.edu.cn, Minglong Qin, mf1833054@smail.nju.edu.cn
Prof. Yitong Yin (Email: yinyt@nju.edu.cn)
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McGillCanada
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/academic/graduate/admission/
Other (see notes)
Robert Robere <robere@cs.mcgill.ca>
Our Masters program usually involves year of coursework and then research; students are typically funded for the research portion and TAships are also available to help.
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Simon Fraser UniversityCanada
http://www.sfu.ca/computing/prospective-students/graduate-students.html
Students get stipend
Vahid Asadi - vahidreza.asadi@gmail.com, Akbar Rafiey - akbar_rafiey@sfu.ca
cs_graduate_program_assistant@sfu.ca
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Uniiversity of TorontoCanada
https://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/programs/computer-science/
Students get stipendThis Masters involves a combination of courses + research.. Students are in the same cohort as post-Bachelors PhD admits. Students are often admitted to the PhD program during their Masters program. Work towards M.Sc. leads to full program credit towards PhD if admitted.
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University of AlbertaCanada
https://www.ualberta.ca/computing-science/graduate-studies/programs-and-admissions/msc-program/index.html
Students get stipendThe M.Sc. thesis (typically 2 years) track supports students through a mix of TA and RA funding.

https://www.ualberta.ca/computing-science/research/research-areas/algorithmics.html
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University of British ColumbiaCanada
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/graduate-degree-programs/master-of-science-computer-science
Students get stipend
Taylor Lundy, tlundy@cs.ubc.ca
grad-info@cs.ubc.caThis masters can be research based with a thesis, course based with an essay, or completely course based. Students get a stipend based on an research assistant position.for Canadian schools, MSc programs are more like the pre-candidacy portion of a US PhD than like a US MSc--virtually all MSc students in Canada do original research and write a thesis.
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University of VictoriaCanada
https://www.uvic.ca/engineering/computerscience/graduate/masters/index.php
Students get stipendFunding primarily through RA and TA. Some limited fellowship funding available.
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University of WaterlooCanada
https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies-academic-calendar/mathematics/david-r-cheriton-school-computer-science/master-mathematics-mmath-computer-science
Students get stipend
Mahbod Majid (mahbod.majid@gmail.com)
CS Grad office (cs-gradoffice@uwaterloo.ca)The thesis option is appropriate for research students, and the coursework option is not fundedThere is also an MMath specifically for Quantum Information (https://uwaterloo.ca/graduate-studies-academic-calendar/mathematics/david-r-cheriton-school-computer-science/master-mathematics-mmath-computer-science-quantum-information)
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Federal University of ABCBrazilunknown
- Akbar Rafiey - akbar_rafiey@sfu.ca
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Institute for Computing, University of CampinasBrazilunknown
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Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São PauloBrazilunknown
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Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São PauloBrazilunknown
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