Computing Science

• We offer a unique programme within the Netherlands with flexibility to specialize in specific areas of your interest thanks to our set up of course packages within tracks. Our tracks focus on cutting-edge Computing Science subjects such as cybersecurity, VR and AR, and AI engineering.

• We offer a unique combination of flexibility, academic depth, and practical experience. Through a range of specialised tracks and course packages, you can tailor the programme to your interests and explore cutting-edge topics such as cybersecurity, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, or delve in established fields such as software engineering, computer architectures, and distributed systems. . Research-focused: opportunities to undertake a research internship and to contribute to exciting projects across a wide variety of domains. As part of the Bernoulli Institute , you will join an international and interdisciplinary research community.
  
• Industry-focused: Close connections with leading companies in the software and computer industry locally, nationally, and internationally, and an option to do an in-company internship in many of these companies
• We offer excellent computing facilities and state of the art teaching material and projects that use these facilities.
• International programme: both the teachers and the students in the programme are coming from a diverse set of cultures and they are in their majority international, offering the opportunity to interact with people from all over the world.
  
• Groningen is a vibrant student city, where more than a quarter of the population consists of students. Our faculty is home to more than 100 nationalities.

Two year programme, 120 credits in total (60 ECTS per year). Most courses are 5 ECTS.

In each track there is a mandatory programme of 50 ECTS consisting of a Student Colloquium (in year 1), Research or In-Company Internship (year 1) and the Master Thesis (year 2). Additionally 40 ECTS of courses need to be selected out of the offered course packages and 30 ECTS are electives chosen form Master level courses.

Extracurricular activities

Exchange: All our science and engineering programmes offer study abroad possibilities at a number of partner institutions. Our partners include top-100 universities in Europe (for example in Germany, UK, and Sweden) and in the USA, China, South-East Asia, and South America. Our exchange programmes have a typical duration of one semester and count toward your final degree.

Graduates of the Master's degree programme in Computing Science enjoy excellent career prospects. As digital technologies continue to transform society, there is strong demand for highly skilled computing professionals across virtually every sector, from technology and healthcare to finance, government, and scientific research. Many of our students secure employment before graduation or within a month of completing their degree.

Our graduates pursue a wide range of careers in industry and academia. Many join leading software and technology companies, while others launch their own start-ups or continue their academic journey through a PhD programme. Career opportunities include roles such as data engineer, MLOps specialist, software architect, cloud engineer, cybersecurity expert, and research scientist.
The programme also provides an excellent foundation for a research career. Graduates regularly move on to PhD positions. Whether you choose industry or academia, the combination of advanced technical expertise and research skills will prepare you to take on challenging and impactful roles, with many graduates progressing to leadership positions as their careers develop.

The Master's programme in Computing Science is closely linked to the Bernoulli Institute. Its mission is to perform outstanding academic research and teaching in Mathematics, Computing Science, and Artificial Intelligence. Within the Master's degree programma of Computing Science you can use excellent computing facilities and conduct research in the following areas:

Computer Architecture , which addresses the areas of computer architecture and micro-architecture, custom computing, non-digital computing, data centric design and other closely related topics;

Distributed Systems , which are becoming the standard way to build information systems, in particular Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, eBusiness, and mobile computing;

Fundamental Computing , which aims to contribute to the understanding of the logical and mathematical foundations of computing science and to realize a two-way transfer between this fundamental research and more applied sub-disciplines of computing science;

Intelligent Systems , with projects on machine learning, computational intelligence, computational artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, computer vision, with applications in medicine, health care, finance, law enforcement, robotics, animal breeding, genetics, bioinformatics;

Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics , in particular 3-D medical imaging, visualising large, multidimensional astronomical data sets, general data visualisation, visualising bioinformatics data (genomics and proteomics);

Software Engineering and Architecture , dealing with the process of creating programs from the requirement analysis all the way to its management, in particular software patterns, explicitly handing variability and managing architectural knowledge;

Information Systems, which are the backbone of any enterprise with special focus on cutting-edge concepts, architectures and technologies for EAI, business process management (BPM) and workflows, SOA and REST architectural styles, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Blockchain platforms, Information Assurance and Security and in the fields of data-driven healthcare, logistics and SCM, advanced biometrics, manufacturing, eScience and scientific computing.

Read more on the website of the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computing Science and Artificial Intelligence.