All students enrolling in any undergraduate and graduate courses offered by the School of CIS, except CIS 100, CIS 101, CIS 110, CIS 150, CIS 175, CIS 210, CIS 211, CIS 227, CIS 250, and CIS 500, are required to own a personal laptop computer system that conforms to the current School minimum published standards. This is a one-student one-machine requirement.

Students must come to the School of CIS office in FCW 20 and have their laptops registered.

Any student who doesn't have a laptop registered with the School of CIS by the first week of the semester will be administratively withdrawn from any course requiring the laptop be registered. There are no exceptions to the policy.

School of CIS detailed laptop requirements

SPECIAL PRICING ON TOSHIBA LAPTOPS

GovConnection, a premier partner of IT Solutions for Government and Education, has partnered with TOSHIBA to offer special pricing on laptop computers for students in the School of CIS. Click on the GovConnection link to go to the GovConnection page created especially for USA students showing three Toshiba laptops and a Toshiba tablet PC.

The School of Computer and Information Sciences fully endorses this line of Toshiba laptop computers. Each of them meets the minimum specifications of the School's laptop ownership requirement. The School, in particular, recommends the tablet PC.

Adobe Acrobat flyer outlining the GovConnection / Toshiba program.