{"id":20806,"date":"2025-03-24T14:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=20806"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:34","slug":"new-mcs-non-thesis-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2025\/new-mcs-non-thesis-pathway\/","title":{"rendered":"New MCS: Non-Thesis Pathway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New MCS: Non-Thesis Pathway\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The new <strong>Master of Computer Science: Non-Thesis Pathway*<\/strong> at Carleton offers flexible options, allowing students to choose between coursework-only OR a combination of coursework <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> a graduate project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This 5.0 credit program requires students to complete the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1005\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/MCS-NON-THESIS-FINAL.png\" alt=\"Chart of non-thesis MCS pathway\" class=\"wp-image-20813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/MCS-NON-THESIS-FINAL.png 1005w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/MCS-NON-THESIS-FINAL-160x75.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/MCS-NON-THESIS-FINAL-240x113.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/MCS-NON-THESIS-FINAL-768x361.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/MCS-NON-THESIS-FINAL-400x188.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/MCS-NON-THESIS-FINAL-360x169.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Important<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thesis students with funding who wish to switch to the Non-Thesis pathway may lose all or part of their funding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Non-Thesis pathway students seeking to do the coursework and graduate project option, should not begin working on their graduate project until they have found a supervisor. Additionally, registration in COMP 5903 (Graduate Project) will not be permitted until the student can prove they have secured a supervisor. Continuous registration in COMP 5903 is required until the graduate project is completed. This includes registration in the summer term.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Non-Thesis, coursework-only pathway students do not require a supervisor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This program pathway will be viewable in the 2025-26 Graduate Calendar, which will be released in early May 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Master of Computer Science: Non-Thesis Pathway* at Carleton offers flexible options, allowing students to choose between coursework-only OR a combination of coursework and a graduate project. This 5.0 credit program requires students to complete the following: *Important<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,25,76,1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carleton-news","category-graduate-news","category-news","category-uncategorized","category-undergrad-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20812,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806\/revisions\/20812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}