The Master programme in Computer science is a two-year programme. For students with background different from our bachelor programme graduates, we also offer a three-year conversion programme, where the first year is used to cover missing prerequisites.

Our courses help to improve abstract thinking and flexibility, using current technologies as an illustration of general principles. The programme gives students considerable flexibility in the course selection, offering several options to specialize in different areas of computer science.

• Software and information systems
• Theoretical computer science
• Bioinformatics and machine learning
• Information security

Graduates off the programme are well prepared for doctoral studies, as well as for careers in the software industry.

Our alumni have successfully pursued doctoral studies at many renowned universities abroad (including Chicago U., Cornell U., EPFL Lausanne, ETH Zurich, KTH Stockholm, NTNU Trondheim, Oxford U., U. of Manchester, U. of Toronto, U. of Waterloo) or successfully pursued various career paths, including building their own businesses, working in large software companies, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as employment in many other companies and organizations using information and communication technologies often at intellectually demanding posts.

Programme details: 

Application-oriented courses allow students to specialize more deeply in an application domain and thus to integrate more quickly into practice after graduation.

When studying practice-oriented problems, the student creatively applies generally applicable knowledge and methods acquired during the study of theoretical subjects, is able to independently obtain and process information about solutions to the problem, assess the suitability of existing solutions in terms of complexity, efficiency and safety and, if necessary, formulate the problem accurately and propose its own solution procedure. The graduate is familiar with the principles of current cutting-edge technologies, understands how they follow from generally applicable fundamentals, and is prepared to apply them in practice and adapt to their development.

The graduate is able to work in a team, after gaining the necessary experience to lead work on projects. He/she is able to present his/her results in a professional forum, to communicate with computer scientists, as well as with managers and specialists from other disciplines. 

Graduates' Career Opportunities:

Informatics is now firmly established as a sector that has a fundamental impact not only on the relevant fields of science and industry, but on the society as a whole. At the same time, it is a sector that is developing extremely rapidly.

In practice, therefore, there is a great demand from companies for professionals who are able to work with the latest technologies and apply them to the development of specific products. The programme meets these demands and, in addition to acquiring a solid theoretical foundation and a sufficiently broad outlook, allows students to specialise in a variety of areas, from software engineering and software systems development, through the theoretical and practical aspects of computer security, bioinformatics and machine learning, to data science and theoretical computer science.

This variability is echoed by the variability of the specialisations in which graduates apply themselves. They find employment mainly in IT (especially software) companies, often as software developers or project managers within the specialisation of a particular company. Other indicated occupations include systems analysts, designers and lead programmers in software firms, security managers, administrators of large-scale software systems (database systems, computer networks) in various institutions, or as computer scientists/programmers in specialist non-IT teams.