Courses & research | Data Science & Technology

During your Master’s in Computer Science, you will earn a total of 120 EC within two years. In addition to the mandatory course Computer Ethics, you will take four mandatory specialisation courses, advanced specialisation coursers, and elective courses. As part of the electives, you can opt to do an internship, take courses to specialise in one of the four profiles, or study abroad. You will complete your Master's by writing your master’s thesis.

European Credit Transfer System

Student workload at Dutch universities is expressed in EC, also named ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), which is widely used throughout the European Union. In the Netherlands, each credit represents 28 hours of work.

STRUCTURE

Year 1 and 2	Number of EC
Mandatory course For all Master’s in Computer Science students.	5 EC	Computer Ethics
Core specialisation courses For all students in Internet Science & Technology.	20 EC	Managing Big Data Data Science Machine Learning 1 Information Theory and Statistics
Advanced specialisation courses You should choose at least four of the advanced specialisation courses to develop expertise on a topic of your interest within the specialisation.	20 EC	Some examples of advanced specialisation courses are: Image Processing and Computer Vision Deep Learning - From Theory to Practice Foundations of Information Retrieval Architecture of Information Systems Probabilistic Programming
Profiling space	30 EC	Some examples of how you can fill up your profiling space: Electives - Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - Research Experiments in Databases and Information Retrieval - Electronic Commerce - Time Series Analysis Internship Exchange programme
Individual final year project	40 EC	Research Topics (10 EC) Final project (30 EC)
Total EC	120 EC

INTERNSHIP

In the second year of your Master’s in Computer Science, you can choose to do an internship. This way, you can apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired during your studies at a science department of an international research institute, an insurance company, a government agency, a healthcare company, or a robotics company in the Netherlands or abroad. The EEMCS faculty at the University of Twente has connections with a large number of research institutes, corporations, and start-ups where you can do your internship project.

Previous students have done internships at:

Software companies such as Egeniq, 20face, Datacadabra B.V, Virtuagym, DynaLynx, Ecare, Extendas
Research institutes and universities such as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), TNO, Fraunhofer Institute, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Wearable technology companies such as Xsens Technologies B.V.

MASTER'S THESIS

You will complete your Master’s by writing your master’s thesis. You can either do an external master’s thesis at a company or at another higher education institute or conduct research within one of the EEMCS research groups, especially at Data Management and Biometrics (DMB), Formal Methods and Tools (FMT), or Semantics, Cybersecurity, and Services (SCS). You can, for example, develop an algorithm that analyses and characterises images and videos of cardiac muscle tissues. What about creating a complete medical history of a patient to make nurses and doctors’ work more efficient?

As part of your master’s thesis, you can undertake a research project such as:

Building a multi-channel automatic sleep scoring model to detect sleep disorders.
Improving data quality for police for more effective forensic investigation.
Making facial recognition robust against morphing attacks.

Career perspectives