If you are interested in doing research in the area of high performance, parallel or scientific computing the following is a list of recommended courses offered in our department.

• CENG371 – Scientific Computing (*) [Fall 2025]
• CENG478 – Introduction to Parallel Computing (*)
• CENG487 – Introduction to Quantum Computing(*) [Fall 2025]
• CENG493 – Cluster Computing (*)
• CENG571 – Numerical Analysis I
• CENG572 – Numerical Analysis II
• CENG576 – Numerical Methods in Optimization
• CENG577 – Parallel Computing
• CENG780 – Sparse Matrix Computations
• CENG798 – Quantum Computing

(*) Master’s students can also register to at most two undergraduate level courses as technical electives provided they have not taken those courses (or equivalent) during their undergraduate studies.

If you are an undergraduate student at METU, you can also consider applying to the Computational Science and Engineering Minor program (https://cse.metu.edu.tr).