Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial Intelligence in Groningen is an international, English-taught bachelor. When you have graduated, jobs will be available to you all over the world!

• We have a unique position when it comes to research on cognitive modeling, logic, and handwriting recognition.

• Our faculty is the home of Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Ben Feringa, and Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Frits Zernike.

In the first year you will acquire knowledge of the most important disciplines for artificial intelligence. In the second year you will start connecting these disciplines and applying your knowledge. Later in the programme, there is room to deepen your knowledge in the areas that most interest you in practicals (15 ECTS) and electives (30 ECTS). You will round off your bachelor's degree with a small research project (15 ECTS), which you will complete under supervision of a researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence at the Bernoulli Institute.

You can find a complete overview of all courses on: https://www.rug.nl/ocasys/fwn/vak/showpos?opleiding=3680

Credits per year: 60 ECTS; most courses are 5 ECTS.

The Dutch government is halving tuition fees for first-year students in higher education.

Tuition fees halved

A degree in Artificial Intelligence equips you for a wide range of fields, precisely because your knowledge is so broad and you can approach matters from various perspectives. You can also communicate well with specialists from different disciplines. That makes you highly employable in companies and organizations. You will have broad knowledge and a logical reasoning ability… therefore excellent career prospects!

Finding work when you graduate

Many graduates find suitable jobs in the business sector in the Netherlands or abroad, or set up their own business. Once they have their Bachelor's degree, most students choose a related Master's programme in Artificial Intelligence or Computational Cognitive Science.

If you choose Artificial Intelligence you can work at institutions that work with large data files, like hospitals or banks. You can also find a job at research and development departments of multinationals and build autonomous systems. When you go for Computational Cognitive Science, you can become a cognitive ergonomist and develop software and devices.

With your Master's degree you are employable in companies that produce software or devices. Among other things, your work will involve making these as user-friendly as possible. Students usually find an interesting job related to their study shortly after graduation. Examples of companies our graduates currently work at are: Accenture, Ethical Hacker, TNO, Deloitte, Educational game researcher, Nederlands Forensisch Instituut, ORTEC, KPN Consulting, Achmea, en Almende.

The mission of the Bernoulli Institute is to perform outstanding academic research and teaching in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence, and to maintain international leadership herein; to foster these disciplines as a living body of knowledge, and to make it relevant to society in its broadest sense.

The symbiosis between pure and applied science, and between mono- and multidisciplinary research and teaching, is a distinguishing characteristic of our institute. As an important part of this mission we aim to transfer our results to other areas of science and technology, and initiate and expand inter- and multi-disciplinary research collaborations.

The following research groups within the Bernoulli Institute focus on Artificial Intelligence:

Autonomous Perceptive Systems

Cognitive Modeling

Multi-Agent Systems