Information for Prospective Graduate Students
FAQS
The information on this page is for Ph.D. applicants only. If you are admitted to the Ph.D. program you will receive a full tuition waiver and a stipdend comfortable enough to live in Rochester for as long as you remain in good academic standing in the program. Here are some frequently asked questions:
- Applying - questions about the application process
- Department Life - what it's like to be a grad student here
- Timeline - the stages you'll go through, from applying through defending your thesis
- International Students - questions for international students
- Rochester - our fair city
Student Profiles
To get a feel for what life is like in the program, read about some of our grad students. Click on the image to read about each student.
![]() Paul Ardis 2nd year Al/Vision | ![]() Michael Spear 3rd year Systems | ![]() Hao Zhang 4th year Al/NLP |
![]() Piotr Faliszewski 3rd year Theory | ![]() Daphne Liu 1st year Al/NLP | ![]() Chris Stewart 4th year Systems |
Research
We strongly encourage you to make sure that we have one or more active research areas that you are interested in before applying to URCS. The research being done can be divided into these broad areas:
- Al - Symbolic Al, Natural Language, and Knowledge Representation
- Al - Vision and Robotics
- Systems
- Theory