The Computer Science Department offers a carefully designed transfer program for those students who wish to finish a bachelors degree at at four year institution. Needless to say there is a substantial cost savings in completing your first two years of college at a Community College. Our students regularly transfer to Cal State Hayward and other local colleges including U.C. Berkeley, San Jose State, U.C. Davis and Stanford University. We currently offer one transfer degree: the AA/AS Degree in Computer Science with Emphasis in Mathematics. Pending state approval we will also offer the AA/AS Degree in Linux Systems Programming..
Our curriculum emphasizes C++ and Java as our transfer languages. Consult your intended transfer institution for their transfer requirements. Our UNIX/Linux programming courses are all taught in C. We also teach UNIX shell scripting, Perl, C#, Visual Basic .NET, Oracle DB, SQL, HTML, DHTML, PHP, VBScript, ASP, XML and XSL. For a complete listing of Computer Science courses consult the online catalog. For a complete listing of our degree and certificate programs please see our degrees page.
Certain courses you take at Chabot articulate to courses offered at a four year college. This means that once you complete the course at Chabot you won't have to take the corresponding course at your transfer institution. For specific articulation agreements consult assist.org. Here are links to the articulation agreements between Chabot and some local colleges: