The Master program

The Master program Computing Science was started in september 2002 in Groningen.  We offer several variants of this master program: a P-variant is meant for those who aim to continue with a Ph.D. program; an M-variant is meant for the students who want to enter the IT business world after they earned their master title. Finally, the faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences also has an Education/Communication Master program for Computing Science bachelors (see this link).

An important goal in the master program is to give the student some research experience.  In this way the institute can judge which student is suited to go on in research (Ph.D. program).

The programs contain some required courses and several optional courses. Also the student is able to choose freely  from all courses offered by this university. In this way the student acquires an academic attitude. For instance, the faculty demands at least 5 EC (1 European Credit = 28 hours work) in the field of general philosophy/ethics/history of science in every masterprogram.

A complete list of available courses can be found in a booklet (dutch only), called 'Keuzegids Algemeen Vormende Vakken' (AVV), 2007-2008. 

The Master program is divided into three variants: Intelligent Systems, Computational Science and Visualisation en Software Engineering and Distributed Systems. All courses are measured in European Credits (EC): 1 EC equals 28 hours of work. For a description of the contents of the courses we refer to the course-catalog Ocasys of the RUG.  Choose 'opleiding' "MSc Informatica".