NOTE: This recommended Four-Year Plan is applicable to students admitted into the major during the 2023-2024 academic year.

To enroll, visit https://www.ramapo.edu/data-science/4plus1/

Total Credits Required for undergraduate degree: 128 credits****

GPA Required for BS in Computer Science: 2.0

GPA Required for 4+1 Pathway: 3.0

WI: Writing Intensive – 3 courses required in the major.

¹Or another 300-level CMPS course as specified in the narrative above

²Moved from 2nd year (Spring)

³Moved from 3rd year (Fall)

⁴Moved from 3rd year (Spring)

* See the course catalog for prerequisites for Calculus I. One of the ways to enter Calculus I is to place into it via the Calculus Placement Test called Accuplacer Advanced Algebra and Functions Test  (AAF Test) at the RCNJ Testing Center. The Testing Center is open all year round. If the placement test results for a given student indicate that developmental courses are required (for instance, Precalculus, or Elementary Algebra Topics followed by Precalculus), such developmental courses may be taken as early as during the summer session(s) preceding the student’s freshman year [Summer Session I (late May – late June) or Summer Session II (mid July – mid August)]. See the RCNJ Testing Center website for more details on the Calculus Placement Test.   

Those mathematics majors who end up taking Precalculus, which is a 4-credit-hour course counting towards graduation credits, can count it as, for instance, the 4 HR Elective in the Fourth Year Spring in the table above. 

** If a student wishes to take a statistics course to fulfill one of their “MATH Elective Level 300 or Above” requirements, the student is advised to take exactly one of the following: Math 353 Statistics OR Math 370 Applied Statistics, but not both. If a student takes both of these two courses, then the one taken earlier will count as a “MATH Elective Level 300 or Above” requirement, but the one taken later will be counted as a general elective, and not as a “Math elective Level 300 or above”. Similarly, if a student first takes MATH 237 and later takes MATH 205, then MATH 205 will not count as a math elective, but as a general elective.

*** An additional 2-credit elective is required in the 3rd year because graduate courses are only 3 credits, instead of the usual 4 for undergraduate courses.  Thus, a student must take an additional 2 credits to meet the 128-credit graduation requirement.  Note that one additional credit hour is being taken in the fall second year Physics lab.

Total Graduate Credits Required: 30 credits****

GPA Required for MSCS: 3.0

****The 9 credits of graduate coursework taken in the fourth-year will double count towards both the undergraduate degree requirement of 128 credits as well as the required 30 graduate credits.