The master’s Programme deepens and expands knowledge and skills acquired in the Bachelor’s program in computer science. In particular, it conveys the ability to work independently, prepares students for doctoral studies and enables them to specialize in a research or application area of ​​computer science.

The following key competencies are taught or deepened in the master’s program in Computer Science:

• abstraction, formalization and critical examination of given problems;
• ability to systematize solution approaches and to solve problems independently and creatively;
• clear presentation and scientific documentation of the developed solution as well as project management;
• reflection on the effects of technologies from legal, ethical, and social points of view.

Admission to the master’s Programme Computer Science requires the completion of a relevant bachelor’s degree or another equivalent degree from a recognized domestic or foreign educational institution.

The Compulsory Modules include the module "Current Topics in Computer Science", which provides an introduction and overview of selected current research topics, as well as the preparation and defense of a master’s Thesis.

In the first part of the program, students must choose three of the following Elective Modules:

• Automata and Logic
• Constraint Solving
• Cryptography
• High Performance Computing
• Optimization and Numerical Computation
• Signal Processing and Algorithmic Geometry

These modules provide advanced foundations for specialization in the remainder of the study program, in which a total of 60 ECTS credits must be completed from a large number of elective modules. In particular, a specialization in one of three topic areas is possible:

• Logic and Learning
• Secure and Distributed Computing
  
• Perception, Interaction and Robotics

To this end, 3 modules (30 ECTS credits) of the respective topic area must be completed.

The study program is rounded off by an individual focus of 20 ECTS credits, for which any modules from the curricula of the master’s programs established at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics may be chosen, as well as the elective module Interdisciplinary Competencies (10 ECTS credits), which allows a free choice from all master’s and Diploma studies of the university.

Alternatively, instead of the individual focus and the Interdisciplinary Competencies modules, an elective package of the university may be taken. Elective packages are defined sets of modules from other disciplines amounting to 30 ECTS credits.