The Department offers Computer Science degrees at the Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. level. The faculty believes in a strong advising approach at all levels. Advisors help the students choose the appropriate program according to their goals, needs and interests. The Computer Science Department includes two large general purpose computer laboratories, an instructional laboratory, an Internet Teaching Laboratory, and a systems administration laboratory, in addition to a number of research labs devoted to research activities in distributed and parallel processing, hardware/software codesign, networking and internetworking research, operating systems, and distributed scientific computing and visualization.