Computational Science has emerged as an interdisciplinary field that combines computer science, applied and computational mathematics, and science and engineering disciplines. Expertise in techniques such as mathematical modeling, computer simulation, scientific visualization, data mining, statistical processing of large data sets, and high-performance computing on parallel and distributed systems, are now expected of university graduates in Computational Science.

The University of Texas at El Paso offers M.S. and Ph.D programs in Computational Science. These interdisciplinary  programs involve several departments from the Colleges of Science and Engineering. The programs will produce graduates skilled in computational modeling of scientific and engineering phenomena,  modern numerical and computational methods, and programming in high-level computer languages. Graduates will be ready to join interdisciplinary teams dealing with the modeling and simulation of computationally intensive problems in a variaty of domains ranging from modern engineering and science to such key areas as national and homeland security. In addition, graduates from the Ph.D. program will be able to begin independent research careers in Computational Science.