Cloud computing (3+1+1)

Cloud computing postgraduate studies aim at top European education and training, which after graduation will be able to deliver scalable and resilient infrastructure, platforms and software, which are high quality and reliable and which meet the needs of local industry.

The cloud computing program is compatible with the respective studies offered at most of the world's universities that support this topic and provide student mobility.

Name of the proposer: University "St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering - FINKI
Name of the study program: Academic second cycle cloud computing studies
Scientific-research area: 2 technical-technological
Поле: 212 Computer Technology & Informatics
Област: 21208 other
The value of postgraduate studies is 60 ECTS credits .
Duration of studies: 2 semesters .
An academic year consists of two semesters lasting 30 weeks (1 semester = 15 weeks).
Conditions for enrolling in the studies : The studies can be enrolled in cloud computing graduate students who have 240 or 180 undergraduate credits.
Introductory layer : students who earned less than 240 credits during their studies a set of differential introductory courses is offered. After their successful realization, the student acquires the right to continue with the first semester of postgraduate studies.
First semester: 2 compulsory subjects, 1 elective general education subject, 2 elective subjects in the field, one of which can be from the list of free elective subjects at UKIM.
Second semester: 2 elective courses in the field, one of which can be from the list of UKIM (only if in the first semester the courses are selected at the faculty level) and completed project - master's thesis (18 ECTS)
1 ECTS credit corresponds to 30 hours of total work engagement
The number of contact hours is 4

Acquired title: Master of Information Science and Computer Engineering in the field of cloud computing.

2. Introductory layer

The introductory layer is intended for students who study for less than four years or have earned less than 240 credits from previous studies.

Table 1: List of introductory layer items

	code	subject	SEMESTER		ECTS	Prerequisite
1	CSEW506	Web programming	seventh	VII	6	Internet technologies
2	CSEW705	Innovation in ICT	seventh	VII	6	no
3		Elective course 1	seventh	VII	6
4		Elective course 2	seventh	VII	6
5		Elective course 3	seventh	VII	6
6	CSES802	Cloud Virtualization and Computing	eighth	VIII	6	Computer Network Design, Network Services Administration, Computer Networks, Internet
7	CSES628	Service Oriented Architectures	eighth	VIII	6	Internet programming
8		Elective course 4	eighth	VIII	6
9		Elective course 5	eighth	VIII	6
10		Optional *	eighth	VIII	6

* Course can be selected from the University list of free elective courses

Table 2: List of electives in introductory layer

	code	subject	SEMESTER		ECTS	Prerequisite
1	CSEW526	High performance computing	seventh	VII	6	Computer architecture and organization or computer architectures
2	CSEW513	Distributed Systems	seventh	VII	6	Computer Networks, Algorithms and Data Structures
3	CSEW702	Web based systems	seventh	VII	6	None
4	CSEW718	Distributed and parallel processing	seventh	VII	6	Operating systems, parallel programming
5	CSEW312	Multimedia Technologies	seventh	VII	6	Introduction to IT or Fundamentals of Software Engineering
6	CSEW515	Computer Ethics	seventh	VII	6	None
7	CSEW514	Implementation of Free and Open Source Systems	seventh	VII	6	None
8	CSEW522	Advanced Web Design	seventh	VII	6	None
9	CSES621	Parallel programming	eighth	VIII	6	Advanced Software Development
10	CSES602	Security of computer systems	eighth	VIII	6	Operating systems
11	CSES634	ICT Project Management	eighth	VIII	6	None
12	CSES601	Administering IT systems	eighth	VIII	6	None
13	CSES618	Network Security	eighth	VIII	6	Data and Computer Communications, Operating Systems
14	CSES622	Data Mining	eighth	VIII	6	None
15	CSES630	Modern computer architectures	eighth	VIII	6	Computer Architecture and Organization or Computer Architectures
16	CSES619	Advanced Databases	eighth	VIII	6	Databases
17	CSES609	Computer Network Design	eighth	VIII	6	Data and computer communications

After usOn completion of all ten courses and 60 credits, the student with previously acquired 180 ECTS credits (or completed three-year studies) continues with the courses from the second year of postgraduate studies.

3. Studies

Table 1: List of Postgraduate Courses

	Name of the subject	Status	Семестар	ECTS
1	Virtualized Data Centers	M	winter	6
2	Scalability and multitenancy for SaaS applications	M	winter	6
3	Elective general education subject *	E	winter	6
4	Elective	E	winter	6
5	Elective	E	winter	6
6	Elective	M	summer	6
7	Elective	E	summer	6
8	Master Thesis	M	summer	18

* Select one item from Table 2

Table 2. General education subjects

	Code	Name of the subject	Status	Семестар	ECTS
1	СЕ-E2-08	Business modeling	E	winter	6
2	ОО-M-01	Research Methods and Writing Techniques	E	winter	6
3	СЕ-E1-04	Privacy, ethics and social responsibility	E	winter	6

3.1 Electives

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The student can choose a subject from the list of offered elective courses from all study programs of the second cycle of studies. The list of offered elective courses can be found at this link.

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