About Us
Welcome to Barnard College’s newly minted Computer Science (CS) program. Barnard College is committed to the growth and success of its new Computer Science program. While Barnard has supported computer science majors for years, the College did not have its own CS program until January 2019. Computer Science is one of the fastest growing majors at Barnard, and it now has a home for administrative and academic support. Barnard named Rebecca Wright, CC ’88, as Barnard’s inaugural director to build and lead the Computer Science program.
There is room to create more opportunities for students to see the full spectrum of computer science — from using the computer simply as a tool to the other end of the spectrum: the ability to design new algorithms, to implement new systems, to carry out things at the forefront of computer science. Barnard will enable students to find more places along that spectrum to become fluent in the underlying tools and mechanisms and be able to reason about them, create them, and combine them in new ways.