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 also do an optional internship, take courses from other specialisations and programmes, or study abroad. You will complete your Master's by writing your master’s thesis.
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.
Year 1 and 2
Numberof EC
Mandatory courseFor all Master’s in Computer Science students.
5 EC
Core specialisation coursesFor all students in Sustainable Computing
20 EC
Advanced specialisation coursesYou should choose four of the advanced specialisation courses to deepen your expertise on a topic of your interest within the specialisation.
At least20 EC
Examples of advanced specialisation courses are:
Profiling spaceYou can choose from suggested electives, take additional advanced specialisation courses or courses from other specialisations to reach the total 120 EC.
25 EC
Some examples of how you can fill up your profiling space:
Individual final year project
40 EC
Total EC
120 EC
In the second year of your Master’s in Computer Science, you can choose to do an internship. This is your opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills in sustainability engineering directly within the industry – whether at high-tech companies, data centre operators, research institutes, or innovative tech start-ups. The EEMCS faculty at the University of Twente maintains strong connections with a wide network of organisations where you can tackle real-world performance and efficiency challenges.
Previous students have done internships at:
You will complete your Master’s by writing your master’s thesis. You can either do an external master’s thesis project at a company or at another higher education institute or conduct research at the University of Twente within various research groups: