<p>I'm a recent graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who majored in Finance and minored in Computer Science. Overall GPA was 3.4, although my minor GPA was just over 2.0. I'm currently a software engineer at a trading firm in Chicago and am interested in graduate school for CS. I took around 7 CS undergrad courses, (algorithms, data structures, architecture, etc...), but have only taken Calc. 1 and various stats/econometric courses. Do I have any hope at getting into programs like UIC, Loyola, IIT, etc. in Chicago? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you!</p>
<p>Were you looking at the Chicago program for non-majors? You would be well situated for that, I’d think, as I heard an admissions officers say it will be challenging for those with no background.</p>
<p>Are you looking for the professional CS masters or the research one? DePaul is another that has a program for that.</p>
<p>There is a College Rep from IIT, xraymancs, who posts here fairly regularly so maybe he will have insight for you. If he doesn’t turn up in a few days, maybe you can PM him.</p>
<p>You did not mention if you are interested in the professional masters or a more research oriented M.S. I’ll assume the former. While I can’t say if you would be admitted to the IIT program, your overall GPA is a plus but the department might request that you take their Software Engineering boot camp course. Our CS department has a significant number of students who apply without a Bachelor’s in CS. This 2 semester course prepares them to take the graduate courses. The description of the professional program is at the link below. At the bottom you will find the contact information for one of the academic advisors for the program. He should be able to tell you a bit more about the program and assess your situation.</p>
<p>[IIT</a> Science | Computer Science | Master of Computer Science](<a href=“http://iit.edu/csl/cs/programs/grad/mcs.shtml]IIT”>http://iit.edu/csl/cs/programs/grad/mcs.shtml)</p>
<p>Your concern is the lack of Calculus but I don’t think this will be a large problem for a Professional Masters degree.</p>