Graduate interventions

Bridge-to-computing graduate programs

CIC staff and technical experts have first-hand experience working on the Align MS bridge program at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Launched in 2013, Align currently enrolls over 2,000 students – the majority from non-STEM disciplines – across eight campus locations.
Read this SIGCSE paper on Northeastern’s Align bridge program.

MS Pathways to Computing Consortium

In 2019, the CIC helped launch the MS Pathways to Computing Consortium, an affiliation of colleges and universities across the US that are building or already offering a bridge program. The CIC serves as the administrative home for the Consortium, supporting joint fundraising, peer to peer learning, research efforts and data collection.

Bridge to Cyber

In 2022, the CIC entered into a 3-year partnership with NSF to collaborate with a subset of their CyberCorps® Scholarships for Service (SFS) institutions with the goal of helping these schools attract more students from populations historically marginalized in cybersecurity. There are 106 SFS schools offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. At present, the CIC works with 15 SFS schools, helping them develop their bridge programs and make the case for NSF supplemental funding. These bridge programs provide an onramp for any learner, often with an emphasis on students from domains like political science, criminal justice, and pre-law.