{"id":128763,"date":"2026-01-19T06:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128763\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T06:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:16:06","slug":"ut-dallas-introduces-new-computer-geospatial-sciences-degree-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128763\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Dallas introduces new computer, geospatial sciences degree program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Texas at Dallas<\/a> is now offering a Bachelor of Science in <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.utdallas.edu\/fact-sheets\/epps\/bachelor-of-science-in-computational-and-geospatial-science\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">computational and geospatial science<\/a>, combining two in-demand fields, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utdallas.edu\/students-teaching\/new-degree-computer-geospatial-sciences-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a> from the university.<\/p>\n<p>The overview<\/p>\n<p>The degree program began last fall as a collaboration between the <a href=\"https:\/\/epps.utdallas.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.utdallas.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Students take a set of computer science courses in the Jonsson School, as well as courses in geospatial science from EPPS that cover subjects like drone and remote sensing, internet mapping and spatial data science.<\/p>\n<p>Ovidiu Daescu, computer science department head, said in the release that advances in three-dimensional data acquisition have created a higher demand for computational ways to work with spatial data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModern GIS technology has moved to computers, requiring programming-related skills,\u201d said Yongwan Chun, geospatial information sciences program head, in the release. \u201cAnd some computer science students wanted to apply their ideas geospatially, so there was a need on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s curriculum is currently built from classes already offered from both schools, but Chun said new offerings are in the works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited because this gives students the ability to progress toward myriad career opportunities,\u201d said Jennifer Holmes, dean of the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, in the release. \u201cGeospatial information sciences, a highly reliable career field, combined with computer science, will give graduates options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Potential employment roles for program graduates include analysts, technicians and software developers in geospatial information sciences, as well as cartographers and regional planners.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Texas at Dallas is now offering a Bachelor of Science in computational and geospatial science,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55275,55276,163,55277,160,162,161,6050],"class_list":{"0":"post-128763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-computer-science","9":"tag-degree","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-geospatial-science","12":"tag-plano","13":"tag-plano-headlines","14":"tag-plano-news","15":"tag-ut-dallas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}