We begin accepting applications for admission (current calendar year) in September for admission for the following academic year (following calendar year). All applications and supporting material must be received by January 15th for the following academic year. Applications are reviewed once a year. Applications received after the January 15th deadline may be declined without consideration and the fee will not be refunded.

The Davis campus of the University of California offers graduate study leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in computer science. The program is administered by the Graduate Group in Computer Science and offers students the opportunity to become involved in many areas of research specialization including algorithms, computational biology, computer architecture, computer graphics and visualization, computer systems design, database and information systems, computer security, computer networks, programming languages and compilers, parallel and distributed systems, operating systems, performance evaluation, scientific computation, and software engineering.

The University of California, Davis is the third largest and most diversified of the nine campuses of the University of California. The campus enrolls over 23,500 students, of whom over 6,700 are graduate and professional students. The Davis campus is a general research university with excellent opportunities in all academic areas. The university lies 15 miles west of Sacramento, adjacent to Interstate Highway 80, and 72 miles northeast of San Francisco.