The first year of the program is made of two core semesters of
broad-spectrum Informatics classes. It gives students the
necessary skills to tackle in-depths subjects in the second
year of the program.
Program overview
The cornerstone of this Master's program in Informatics lays
on a tight link bridging the university's research and
teaching vocations. This strong connection is realized through
elective orientation and discovery classes allowing students
to define their professional goals. In the second year of the
Master's program, part of the third semester offers several
concentrations each with their specific curriculum, while
still keeping a common core of foundational, discovery and
cultural “TUs” (Teaching Units).
Performance assessment
• Year-long tests and final exams
• M1 (first year) thesis and M2 (second
year) internship: written report and oral defense.
Admission requirements
• M1: students can be admitted into the
first year (M1) or second year (M2) of the program. In general
however, admission is selective into the first year to any
student holding a Bachelor's degree in informatics.
M1: Semester 1 (S1)
First week: Review (10 h of Algebra and 10 h of Analysis)
Foundational TU (1)
• Advanced data structure (4 ECTS
credits)
• Fundamentals of programming (5 ECTS
credits)
• Database engineering (5 ECTS credits)
3 Discovery TUs
• Algorithmic geometry (4 ECTS)
• Dynamic systems specification
(4 ECTS credits)
• Exploratory data
analysis (4 ECTS credits)
• IT networks (4 ECTS credits)
• Knowledge representation (4 ECTS
credits)
• Security and information
theory (4 ECTS)
• Transition systems &
model checking (4 ECTS credits)
Transversal TU
• English (2 ECTS credits)
• Communication and Writing Techniques (2
ECTS credits)
• Free (Sport, International Mobility,
Associative Activity) (Bonus)
• Algorithmics on words (4 ECTS
credits)
• Constraint programming (4
ECTS credits)
• Distributed systems (4 ECTS
credits)
• Internet of Things (4 ECTS)
• Matrix factorization methods
for data mining (4 ECTS credits)
• Operational research (4 ECTS
credits)
• Research initiation (4 ECTS)
• System administration (4
ECTS credits)
Transversal TUs
• English (2 ECTS credits)
• Communication and Writing Techniques (2
ECTS credits)
• Project leading and managing (4 ECTS
credits)
• Free (Sport, International Mobility,
Associative Activity) (Bonus)