Career planning and preparation
Whether you need help preparing to apply for internships or full-time careers, we have plenty of wonderful resources that can help you. LAS Career Services can help you. They have aids to write resumes, cover letters, and references, tools to provide feedback on formatting and content, and can help with mock interviews to prepare for upcoming interviews.
Iowa State University also has career fairs at the beginning of each semester that all students are welcome to attend to meet with perspective employers. Additionally, we bring prospective employers to campus through our Industry Lecture series where you can attend a presentation and ask them questions which may help you prepare for the workforce.
Internship opportunities
Both undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to do summer internships throughout the United States. Internships offer you real-world experience in areas of computer science that you may or may not be exposed to in the classroom. Additionally, they provide valuable experience which can lead to full time positions in the future and teach soft skills such as time management, teamwork, and communication skills.
Our students have great things to say about their internship experiences. They’ve interned at Google, Microsoft, Meta, John Deere, Morgan Stanley, and many other companies.
What can you do with an undergraduate computer science degree?
The best thing about a computer science degree is the vast variety of industries that use computer science. An undergraduate degree from our program opens doors to numerous fields, allowing you to apply your skills however you may choose. Over 90% of our graduates have either gone onto graduate school or gotten a full-time job within six months of graduation.
Our graduates have gone onto work in education, healthcare, insurance, and even at agriculture firms. They’ve developed online learning platforms, helped advance telemedicine technologies, help protect user privacy, develop customer service automation using artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, and even tools for data analysis for crop management. From software development to cybersecurity, our graduates have left our program to do a little bit of everything.
What can you do with a graduate computer science degree?
Our MS degree programs offer theoretical and experimental methods for solving fundamental and practical programs in computer science and artificial intelligence. As a result, our graduates are well-equipped to tackle some of the toughest problems companies present to them. Graduates of our program have gone onto work for Principal Financial Group, Microsoft, Walt Disney, Google, John Deere, LinkedIn, and other Fortune500 companies.
In our PhD program, our graduates would have done research in high-demand areas such as data science, artificial intelligence, robotics, and software engineering. Our graduates are well prepared for a career as a researcher or in academia, with our graduates going onto work for Fortune 500 companies and top-tier Universities.
Alumni Spotlights
Adithya Kulkarni, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech
Eshita Zaman, Teaching Faculty at Utah Valley University in the Department of Computer Science
Kathryn Rohlfing, Senior Associate Software Engineer at Capital One