Northeastern establishes the College of Computer Science (CCS)

The College dedicated to the field of computer science was one of the first in the country. The University names Paul Kalaghan the College’s first dean. The College opens its doors in Knowles-Volpe Hall (now the Knowles Center) with 11 faculty members, most from the College of Arts and Sciences mathematics department, and had 239 first-year students. The first undergraduate major offered is a BS in Computer Science.