General outline

The master’s programme is a two-year programme. The programme is organized in semesters. Each semester contains 20 weeks, and is subdivided in quartiles. The unit of credit is the European Credits (EC). One EC stands for 28 hours of study load. An academic year is 60 EC. The master’s programme of Electrical Engineering is 120 EC

The curriculum of the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering consists of the following elements:

The Electrical Engineering master’s programme does not contain fixed courses that must be followed by all students. Instead, from the elements mentioned above, you assemble your personal programme in consultation with the supervisor of your master’s thesis project. This supervisor will be a full professor in one of the research groups (chairs), mentioned below. You choose the elective courses. The supervisor decides which compulsory courses should be taken. More detailed guidelines and procedures regarding the programme are given in the Programme Guidelines.

To assist you, while assembling the programme, specializations have been defined. Each specialization contains a predefined set of compulsory courses. Also, chairs have been selected, participating in a specialization. By choosing a specialization according to your interests, you obtain a first proposal for the compulsory courses and one or more chairs were a master thesis project can be sought. All chairs participate in one or more research institutes:

It must be stressed that you should create your own personal programme in consultation with a supervisor from one of the chairs. Choosing a specialization is only a starting point for this. Also, a specialization should by no means limit your choices. You and your supervisor are allowed to cross the boundaries of the specializations while creating your programme.