Resources for Current Students
Ph.D. Program Overview - Overview of the Ph.D. Program, including a guide for how to apply.
Undergraduate Forms
Course substitution form - Fill this out if you want to replace a course in the DATA curriculum with an equivalent course you took outside of the department (at William & Mary or otherwise).
Graduate Forms
Application for DATA 690: Readings in Data Science - Fill this out if you are a Ph.D. student enrolled in a specialized track and want to take one-on-one coursework with an advisor.
Summer Travel Authorization - Fill this out if you will be leaving Williamsburg for a period of longer than 2 weeks while being funded as a GTA or GRA of the department.
Computer Specifications
We are frequently asked what type of laptop students should purchase to get the most out of their Data Science coursework. Much of our coursework goes beyond what you can meaningfully do on laptops today; as such, we have partnered with the High Performance Computing group to provide online environments to our students, which are accessible on-campus at notebooks.sciclone.wm.edu. However, if you would like more flexibility in where and how you do your assignments, we recommend a laptop with:
1) A high-performance or gaming CPU
2) A dedicated NVIDIA GPU. NVIDIA is highly preferred, as it is interoperable with the most common deep learning frameworks available today.
3) At least 32GB of memory (64GB is highly preferred)
4) At least 1TB of SSD Disk space