As technology systems grow more complex and essential across all industries, skilled professionals who understand and develop these systems are in high demand. From healthcare and education to business, transportation, cybersecurity, and even video game design, technology plays a critical role in shaping the world around us. Since 1979, Boston University’s Metropolitan College (BU MET) has been a leader in computer science education. Our computer and information technology programs are taught by faculty with exceptional academic achievements and real-world industry experience. Specializing in areas like software development, software engineering, artificial intelligence, web application development, and database management and business intelligence, BU MET offers a wide range of degree and graduate certificate options to meet your career goals. Whether you’re looking to advance your skills or transition into a new role, BU MET’s computer science and IT graduate programs provide the hands-on training and expert guidance needed to thrive in today’s fast-changing technology landscape.

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When Technology Advances So Fast, Is Humanity Catching Up?

A question many have carried around for the better part of a decade: technology is sprinting, is the human side of the equation, our ethics, our institutions, our ability to weigh what we should do against what we can do, jogging behind? Philosophy is the discipline that asks those questions most directly. It is part […]
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How to Ask Your Employer to Pay for Grad School

If you’ve been thinking about a master’s degree, here is something worth knowing: there is a real chance your employer will help pay for it. The bigger question is not whether the money exists. It is whether you are willing to ask for it. This is the part most people get stuck on. Bringing up […]
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BU COM Professor Wins Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Boston University College of Communication Professor Ayse Lokmanoglu won the prestigious fellowship this past week, becoming one of 24 in the 2026 cohort. What will Lokmanglu’s research focus on? As an emerging media studies professor in the College of Communication, Lokmanoglu’s work focuses on how we think about the internet, particularly images, in politically tense […]
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