Crain's Chicago Business -- There's now a construction plan for a long-awaited project that will bring an academic and research facility to the banks of the South Branch. The computer science department at U of I’s Urbana-Champaign campus will begin offering a master’s degree program in Chicago next year at DPI’s current space in the Loop. Demand for computer science degrees is skyrocketing. Last year U of I had 224 students in its master’s program in Urbana. This fall, enrollment is 617 students.
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