Computer science has a brilliant future! You could help in creating new network solutions, building the future digital society, developing secure digital services, or be involved in a ground-breaking international software project.

Perhaps you will develop algorithms for utilising genome data in medicine or optimise bus routes using positioning data. Do you wonder about all the things that can be automated? Or would you like to dig deeper and become a researcher?

In the Master’s Programme in Computer Science, you can become an expert in a wide range of fields. You will have access to the focus areas of research in computer science at the University of Helsinki: algorithms, distributed or networked systems, and software engineering. You will gain lasting professional skills for specialist, design, or managerial posts in the corporate world, or for research and doctoral education, since the Master’s programme in computer science gives you the aptitude for both independent working and multidisciplinary teamwork.

Why Computer Science?

The education in the Master's Programme in Computer Science will give you:

• the ability to advance your knowledge in the different areas of computer science
• the skill to seek, assess, and analyse scientific information in your own area of expertise, and apply the methods of the field in an ethical and sustainable way
• the ability to act as an expert in computer science, and to develop the practices and methods of your field in cooperation with specialists from other fields
• oral and written communication skills in an international work environment

The quality teaching within the computer science programme at the University of Helsinki has been highlighted repeatedly in national and international teaching assessments. The student-centred, in-depth learning gives you a solid basis for life-long learning. Studying at the leading research unit for computer science in Finland offers you constant interaction with current research and insight into the development patterns in the field.

The employment outlook within the field is excellent. As a graduate, you can find employment in varied positions within the ICT field around the world, both as entrepreneur and employee, within small or large corporations as well as organisations in the private, public or third sector. Your degree is also an excellent springboard to a doctoral programme.

International scope and co-operation:

Within the programme, nearly a third of the students come from abroad and the advanced courses are instructed by international researchers. The University of Helsinki and the Faculty of Science offer many opportunities for international activities:

• Student exchange in one of the exchange locations of the faculty or university
• Traineeships abroad
• International tasks within the student’ organisations or Student Union
• Language courses at the Language Centre of the University of Helsinki

Computer science at the University of Helsinki is also a popular exchange location. Exchange students have come from 14 countries in recent years. The students in the department have taken exchange periods in 16 countries in the past few years.

In the Faculty of Science, your course opportunities are not limited to the modules offered by your own education programme. You can choose courses from other programmes, both within your own faculty and from the university’s other faculties. The teaching within the Data Science and the Life Science Informatics Master’s programmes is designed in close cooperation with the Master's Programme in Computer Science.