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360 Farris Rd. | Conway, AR 72034 501.450.3445 | [email protected] uca.edu/international/admissions University of Central Arkansas INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT UCA’S COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM u The Computer Science program in UCA has been accredited by the ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) Computing Accreditation Commission since 2006. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $325,000 grant to the Department of Computer Science at the UCA to establish Arkansas’ first computer science- related “Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)” site. UCA is one of seven newly selected REU program encourages talented undergraduate students to pursue health informatics in the next three years. FULL ARTICLE http://uca.edu/news/uca-becomes-state%E2%80%99s-first-computer-science- nsf-research-undergraduate- site/#more-2847 UCA’s student team on Software Design placed third in the National Final of the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup. This year, 74,000 students from 400 different schools participated in the competition. The team competed against students from Harvard, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Arizona State University, University of California-Los Angeles, and others. FULL ARTICLE http://uca.edu/news/uca-students-software-design-places-third-in-microsoft-imagine-cup/ Google sponsored a summer CS4HS teachers’ workshop at the UCA Computer Science Department. FULL ARTICLE http://sun0.cs.uca.edu/cs4hs/index.html According to department statistics, graduates of this department have near 100 % workforce placement rate. u u u

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360 Farris Rd. | Conway, AR 72034501.450.3445 | [email protected]

uca.edu/international/admissions

University of Central ArkansasINTERNATIONAL

ENGAGEMENT

UCA’S COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMuThe Computer Science program in UCA has been

accredited by the ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) Computing Accreditation Commission since 2006.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $325,000 grant to the Department of Computer Science at the UCA to establish Arkansas’ first computer science-related “Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)” site. UCA is one of seven newly selected REU program encourages talented undergraduate students to pursue health informatics in the next three years.

FULL ARTICLEhttp://uca.edu/news/uca-becomes-state%E2%80%99s-first-computer-science- nsf-research-undergraduate-site/#more-2847

UCA’s student team on Software Design placed third in the National Final of the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup. This year, 74,000 students from 400 different schools participated in the competition. The team competed against students from Harvard, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Arizona State University, University of California-Los Angeles, and others.

FULL ARTICLEhttp://uca.edu/news/uca-students-software-design-places-third-in-microsoft-imagine-cup/

Google sponsored a summer CS4HS teachers’ workshop at the UCA Computer Science Department.

FULL ARTICLE

http://sun0.cs.uca.edu/cs4hs/index.html

According to department statistics, graduates of this department have near 100%

workforce placement rate.

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UCA’s College of Business is an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the school in the new 2011 edition of its book, “The Best 300 Business Schools.“

This is the third year the College of Business has been featured in The Princeton Review.

“We recommend the University of Central Arkansas as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn an MBA.”

Robert Franek, Princeton Review Senior VP-Publishing,

”It is an honor to be chosen as one of the 300 best Business Schools out of over 4000 business schools world-wide and over 600 MBA programs in the United States alone.”

Michael Rubach, UCA’s MBA Director

UCA’S COLLEGE OF BUSINESSAMONG THE BEST 300 SCHOOLS

360 Farris Rd. | Conway, AR 72034501.450.3445 | [email protected]

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University of Central ArkansasINTERNATIONAL

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SEE BUSINESS SCHOOL RANKINGwww.princetonreview.com/business-school-rankings.aspx

UCA’s College of Business is one of 66 schools in the book and appears on one or more of the book’s ranking lists.

63rdoverall in academic experience category

64th

61st

in interesting professors

in accessible professors