Computer Sciences (3+1+1)

1. General information

The Postgraduate Studies in Computer Science are committed to excellent European education. We train highly skilled professionals who will be able to meet the needs of both IT companies and leading-edge scientific research institutions in the country and abroad.

Offered by: Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering – FCSE (FINKI)
Study programme: Academic master studies in Computer Science
Scientific Research Area: Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Scientific-research field: Informatics
Category: Information systems and programming, integrated computing methods and applications, algorithms, optimization, simulation, software development and databases.
The master studies cycle consists of 60 ECTS.
Study duration: 2 semesters.
One academic year is divided into two semesters with 30 weeks each (1 semester = 15 weeks)
The first semester is comprised of courses only, while in the second semester there are fewer courses and the rest of the time is devoted to the final project, i.e. master thesis.
Enrollment requisites: fully completed undergraduate study cycle with a minimum of 240 ECTS with a degree in the fields of computer science and/or computer engineering. In the case of having an appropriate degree with less than 240 ECTS, the student has to enroll the introductory courses first.
Introductory courses: only for students that have obtained less than 240 ECTS. A number of differential introductory courses are offered in order to level up the required competences. Upon successful completion of the introductory courses, the student has the right to continue with the formal master study programme courses in the second year of studies.
First semester: 3 compulsory courses + 1 elective course (the elective course can be chosen from the courses list offered by the University)
Second semester: 3 elective courses (can be chosen from the courses list offered by the University only in the event that this opportunity has not been used in the previous semester) + final master thesis project that equals 18 ECTS.
1 ECTS = 30 hours of work load.
Contact hours per week are 4.

Degree: Master of computer science and engineering in the field of Computer Science

2. Introductory courses

Introductory courses: only for students that have obtained less than 240 ECTS. A number of differential introductory courses are offered in order to level up the required competences. Upon successful completion of the introductory courses, the student has the right to continue with the formal master study programme courses in the second year of studies.

Table 1: List of introductory courses

	Course	Semester	ECTS	Prerequisite
1	Probability and statistics	VII	6	Calculus 2 (Mathematics 2)
2	Calculus 3	VII	6	Calculus 2
3	Databases 2	VII	6	Databases
4	Elective course 1	VII	6
5	Elective course 2	VII	6
6	Discreet structures 3	VIII	6	Discreet strucutres 1
7	Information systems	VIII	6	Software engineering, Databases
8	Algorithms	VIII	6	Object oriented and visual programming
9	Elective course 3	VIII	6
10	Elective course from University list of available courses	VIII	6

Table 2: List of elective introductory courses

	Course	Semester	ECTS	Prerequisite
1	Modeling and simulation with visualization	VII	6	Object oriented and visual programming, Probability and statistics or Statistics
2	Formal languages and automata	VII	6	Discreet structures 2
3	Operations research	VIII	6	Probability and statistics or Statistics
4	Analyses and logical design of IS	VIII	6	Information sytems
5	Compilers	VIII	6	Discreet structures 3, Microprocessors and microcontrollers
6	Discreet structures 2	VIII	6	Discreet structures 1
7	Software engineering	VIII	6	Object oriented and visual programming

2.2 Studies

Courses for the Master studies for the study programme Computer sciences can be found at this link.

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