School of Engineering - BEng in Computer Science

(For students admitted in 2024-25 under the 4-year degree)

BEng in Computer Science

In addition to the requirements of their major programs, students are required to complete the University
requirements for graduation. For details please refer to the respective section on this website.

Students may use no more than 6 credits earned from courses offered in self-paced online delivery mode to
satisfy the graduation requirements of a degree program. This 6-credit limit does not apply to credits obtained
through the credit transfer procedures of the University.

For students graduating with an additional major, they must take all the requirements specified for that major,
within which they must complete at least 20 single-counted credits. These 20 credits cannot be used to fulfill
any other requirements for graduation except for the 120-credit degree requirement.

Under the new 30-credit Common Core Program which is applicable to students admitted to the University in
2022-23 and thereafter, courses that have been counted towards Major Requirements are not allowed to be
reused for fulfilment of the University Common Core Requirements. Students should look up the details of the
Common Core Program including the general and School-/program-specific distributional requirements
posted on the Common Core website where the link to it is available on this website.

Major Requirements

Engineering Fundamental Course(s)

Credit(s)
attained
COMP Note: COMP 1021 OR COMP 1022P 3
COMP 1021 Introduction to Computer Science 3
COMP 1022P Introduction to Computing with Java 3

CHEM/LIFS/ Note: CHEM 1008 OR CHEM 1012 OR LIFS 1901 OR PHYS 3-4
PHYS 1101 OR PHYS 1112 OR PHYS 1312
CHEM 1008 Introductory Chemistry 3
CHEM 1012 General Chemistry B: Atomic Structure, Molecules, and Bonding 3
Theories
LIFS 1901 General Biology I 3
PHYS 1101 Introductory Physics 4
PHYS 1112 General Physics I with Calculus 3
PHYS 1312 Honors General Physics I 3

MATH Note: [(MATH 1012 OR MATH 1013 OR MATH 1023) AND 4-7
(MATH 1014 OR MATH 1024)] OR [MATH 1020]
MATH 1012 Calculus IA 4
MATH 1013 Calculus IB 3
MATH 1014 Calculus II 3
MATH 1020 Accelerated Calculus 4
MATH 1023 Honors Calculus I 3
MATH 1024 Honors Calculus II 3

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MATH Note: MATH 2111 OR MATH 2121 OR MATH 2131 3-4

MATH 2111 Matrix Algebra and Applications 3
MATH 2121 Linear Algebra 4
MATH 2131 Honors in Linear and Abstract Algebra I 4

SENG Engineering Introduction course (COMP students may also use 3-4
COMP 1022P to fulfill this requirement.)
COMP 1021 Introduction to Computer Science 3
BIEN 1010 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering 3
CENG 1000 Introduction to Chemical and Biological Engineering** 3
CENG 1500 A First Course on Materials Science and Applications 3
CENG 1700 Introduction to Environmental Engineering 3
CIVL 1100 Discovering Civil and Environmental Engineering 3
CIVL 1210 Fundamental of Green Buildings 3
ELEC 1100 Introduction to Electro-Robot Design 4
ELEC 1200 A System View of Communications: from Signals to Packets 4
ENGG 1100 First Year Cornerstone Engineering Design Project Course 3
IEDA 2010 Introduction of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics 3
MECH 1902 Energy Systems in a Sustainable World 3
MECH 1906 Mechanical Engineering for Modern Life 3
MECH 1907 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering 3

Required Course(s)

Credit(s)
attained
COMP Note: [COMP 1991 AND (COMP 4981 OR COMP 4981H)] OR 6
[COMP 4910]
COMP 1991 Industrial Experience 0
COMP 4910 Co-op Program 6
COMP 4981 Final Year Project 6
COMP 4981H Final Year Thesis 6

COMP Note: (COMP 2011 AND COMP 2012) OR COMP 2012H 5-8
COMP 2011 Programming with C++ 4
COMP 2012 Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures 4
COMP 2012H Honors Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures 5

COMP 2611 Computer Organization 4

COMP Note: COMP 2711 OR COMP 2711H 4

COMP 2711 Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science 4
COMP 2711H Honors Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science 4

COMP Note: COMP 3111 OR COMP 3111H 4

COMP 3111 Software Engineering 4
COMP 3111H Honors Software Engineering 4

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COMP 3511 Operating Systems 3

COMP Note: COMP 3711 OR COMP 3711H 3-4

COMP 3711 Design and Analysis of Algorithms 3
COMP 3711H Honors Design and Analysis of Algorithms 4

COMP Note: Students are required to take COMP 4900 for every 0
regular term in which they are in residency at HKUST with major
in COMP
COMP 4900 Academic and Professional Development 0

ELEC/IEDA/ Note: ELEC 2600 OR ELEC 2600H OR IEDA 2520 OR IEDA 3-4
MATH 2540 OR MATH 2411 OR MATH 2421 OR MATH 2431
ELEC 2600 Probability and Random Processes in Engineering 4
ELEC 2600H** Honors Probability and Random Processes in Engineering 4
IEDA 2520 Probability for Engineers 3
IEDA 2540 Statistics for Engineers 3
MATH 2411 Applied Statistics 4
MATH 2421 Probability 4
MATH 2431 Honors Probability 4

ENGG 2010 Engineering Seminar Series 0

Elective(s)
Minimum
credit(s)
required
COMP COMP 2000-level or above Elective (Any course(s) of the 3
subject and level as specified)

COMP COMP Electives (5 courses from the specified elective list, of 15

which at least 3 courses should be taken from 1 area and at
least 2 courses outside that area (including course(s) in the
Courses Without Associated Area). Students may use at most
one course under Deep Learning Applications (COMP 4471 and
COMP 5223) to count towards this elective requirement.)

Artificial Intelligence / Theory Area

COMP 3211 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence 3
COMP 3721 Theory of Computation 3
COMP 4211 Machine Learning 3
COMP 4221 Introduction to Natural Language Processing 3
COMP 4222 Machine Learning with Structured Data 3
COMP 4331 Data Mining 3
COMP 4332 Big Data Mining and Management 3
COMP 4421 Image Processing 3
COMP 4471 Deep Learning in Computer Vision 3
COMP 4541 Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts 3
COMP 4901L Foundations of Computer Vision 3

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COMP 4901R Algorithmic Game Theory 3

COMP 4901T Introduction to Computer Vision 3
COMP 4901V Large-Scale Deep Perception, Localization, and Planning for 3
Autonomous Vehicles
COMP 4901X Formal Reasoning about Programs 3
COMP 4901Y Large-Scale Machine Learning for Foundation Models 3
COMP 4901Z Reinforcement Learning 3
COMP 5211 Advanced Artificial Intelligence 3
COMP 5212 Machine Learning 3
COMP 5213 Introduction to Bayesian Networks 3
COMP 5214 Advanced Deep Learning Architectures 3
COMP 5221 Natural Language Processing 3
COMP 5223 Perception and Information Processing for Robotics 3
COMP 5331 Knowledge Discovery in Databases 3
COMP 5421 Computer Vision 3
COMP 5711 Introduction to Advanced Algorithmic Techniques 3
COMP 5712 Introduction to Combinatorial Optimization 3
COMP 5713 Computational Geometry 3

Vision & Graphics / Multimedia Area

COMP 4411 Computer Graphics 3
COMP 4421 Image Processing 3
COMP 4431 Multimedia Computing 3
COMP 4441 Music Video Creation 3
COMP 4451 Game Programming 3
COMP 4461 Human-Computer Interaction 3
COMP 4462 Data Visualization 3
COMP 4471 Deep Learning in Computer Vision 3
COMP 4901T Introduction to Computer Vision 3
COMP 5411 Advanced Computer Graphics 3
COMP 5421 Computer Vision 3

Software / Database Area

COMP 3021 Java Programming 3
COMP 3031 Principles of Programming Languages 3
COMP 3311 Database Management Systems 3
COMP 4021 Internet Computing 3
COMP 4111** Software Engineering Practices 3
COMP 4121 Modern Compiler Construction 3
COMP 4321 Search Engines for Web and Enterprise Data 3
COMP 4331 Data Mining 3
COMP 4332 Big Data Mining and Management 3
COMP 4521 Mobile Application Development 3
COMP 4651 Cloud Computing and Big Data Systems 3
COMP 4901A Distributed Systems 3

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COMP 5111 Fundamentals of Software Analysis 3

COMP 5112 Parallel Programming 3
COMP 5311 Database Architecture and Implementation 3
COMP 5331 Knowledge Discovery in Databases 3

Computer Systems / Networking Area

COMP 3631 Cryptography 3
COMP 4511 System and Kernel Programming in Linux 3
COMP 4521 Mobile Application Development 3
COMP 4531 IoT and Smart Sensing 3
COMP 4541 Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts 3
COMP 4611 Design and Analysis of Computer Architectures 3
COMP 4621 Computer and Communication Networks 3
COMP 4632 Practicing Cybersecurity: Attacks and Counter-measures 3
COMP 4634 Cybersecurity 3
COMP 4635** Practical Cloud Computing Security 3
COMP 4641 Social Information Network Analysis and Engineering 3
COMP 4651 Cloud Computing and Big Data Systems 3
COMP 4901A Distributed Systems 3
COMP 4901Q High Performance Computing 3
COMP 5621 Computer Networks 3
COMP 5622 Advanced Computer Communications and Networking 3
COMP 5631 Cryptography and Security 3

Courses Without Associated Area

COMP 4911 IT Entrepreneurship 3

**Remarks on course(s):
- CENG 1000: The course title will be changed to "Foundations of Chemical and Biological Engineering"
starting from Fall, 2025-26.
- COMP 4111: The course was last offered in 2019-20 and was deleted subsequently.
- COMP 4635: This is a new course to take effect in Summer, 2024-25.
- ELEC 2600H: The course was last offered in 2021-22 and was deleted subsequently.

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