Spring 2025 Master’s Enrollment Guide

The published Spring 2025 Class roster lists our officially confirmed courses at Cornell Tech. As a Cornell Tech student, you will only be able to enroll in classes hosted by our campus programs at Cornell Tech. Ithaca classes are not available for enrollment unless otherwise noted below in the FAQ section as a special exception.

• When reviewing the class roster, you must filter by Location for “Cornell Tech” to review eligible Cornell Tech campus offerings.
• Please make sure to review individual class notes on the Class Roster as it will indicate if you are eligible to enroll in the class based on your academic program (i.e. Limited to Cornell Tech PhD Students only, instructor permission needed, etc.). A small amount of courses will have special enrollment processing – please review the FAQ section as it will inform you on which classes and next steps!
• Class meeting patterns, times, grading basis, prerequisites, classroom locations, etc. are official and published.
• Non-MBA students will not have direct access to enroll in MBA classes: please refer to the FAQ section below regarding the MBA class enrollment process.
• Waitlists will be open for all Master’s classes for Regular Enrollment. In the event a class is full or no seats are available based on your major, the next step is to signup for the waitlist. If the waitlist is also full, you will need to check back later if a space opens to allow you to signup.
• Please review your Student Center for any existing holds which may impact your enrollment ability (i.e. Bursar holds, Clinic holds, etc).
  • As of now, students will begin seeing a Spring 2025 Term Checklist task in your To-Do List in Student Center.  This task will stay active until it is completed.  Please ensure you complete this task!

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Further updates such as new classes added to the roster will be announced and updated on this page as we approach the Spring semester.

Announcements:

• CS 5996 Course Description: As industrial competition continues to accelerate AI innovations, this course will focus on the fundamentals of what has made these innovations possible, by investigating the complex roles of data, compute, and algorithms. We will try to answer the question of which is more important by exploring:
  1. Data
  2. Datasets for AI
  3. Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence and Human-in-the-Loop
  4. Data Labeling Strategies
  5. Evaluation
  6. Compute
  7. Parallelism
  8. Neural compute architectures
  9. Power, energy, and the environment
  10. Algorithms
  11. Encoders, transformers, attention
  12. Massive neural architectures
  13. Sparsity, density, and distillation
  14. Training efficiency

   

• Spring Studio Core Classes (TECH 5910 Startup Studio, TECH 5920 BigCo Studio, and TECH 5930 PiTech Impact Studio) will be available to enroll during Regular Enrollment via permission code. Students will be emailed a unique permission code and enrollment instructions on Monday January 13th by noon.
  
• Spring Studio Elective classes (TECH prefixes – excluding the above-mentioned core classes): Second year Jacobs, MEng, LAW, and MBA students will be able to sign up for additional electives, space permitting. First Year Jacobs students cannot enroll in these classes as this is resolved in your Spring Year 2. If we see you are enrolled you will be dropped automatically.

New Courses Added:

• CS 5356 Building Startup Systems – taught by Ludwig Schubert
• CS 5304/INFO 5304 Data Science in the Wild – taught by Heejong Kim
• TECH 5010 Values at Play (This is a studio elective – not open to 1st Year Jacobs)
• TECH 5141 Digital Innovation in Retail (This is a studio elective – not open to 1st Year Jacobs)
• TECH 5270 Practical Introduction to Security and Privacy (This is a studio elective – not open to 1st Year Jacobs)

New Crosslist Added:

• CS 5342 Trust & Safety now has an INFO crosslisting (INFO 5320)

PhD Classes considered for Master’s Enrollment (instructor permission is required and seats are very limited):

• ORIE 6170 Engineering Societal Systems
• CS 6412 Adv. Topics in Operating Systems
• INFO 6135 Developing Research Agendas in HCI Engineering
• ECE 6960: Special Topics Sustainable Computing

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Interested in an independent study? This form link below is only to be used for our Master’s students who are intending to work with Cornell Tech Technical Faculty (CS, INFO, ORIE, ECE) or with a Weill faculty member. This form will also be used for Jacobs’ students who are pursuing a study as part of their Spec Project requirement! Cornell Tech Master’s Students who pursue projects with LAW or MBA faculty are directed to contact the Student & Academic Affairs Team for guidance as this is handled differently and not on this form. Prior to filling out the form, please also consult with your independent study advisor and your program director regarding your project. Once you are ready to proceed, please fill out the electronic form here. More information on the process can be found in our FAQ section!