Master's Degree Programme in Artificial Intelligence
AI is an attractive, cool, and profitable (if not the best) profession for capable students due to several reasons:
- High demand: AI's rapid growth creates job opportunities in various sectors due to a talent shortage.
- Career prospects: AI experts have exciting roles as technology integrates into diverse fields and command competitive salaries.
- Innovative: AI work involves groundbreaking research, algorithm development, and real-world applications.
- Multidisciplinary: AI combines skills from different fields, enhancing versatility.
- Impactful: AI can revolutionize industries and address societal challenges.
Programme info
Applications for master's degree programmes can be submitted once a year in January.
The Master’s Degree Programme in Artificial Intelligence provided by the Faculty of Information Technology is a two-year (120 ECTS) full-time programme taught in English. In our programme, we provide a wide view on the AI domain including modern and advanced (and remarkably interesting) topics of it (with appropriate models, algorithms, and tools) such as:
- machine learning, deep learning, and cognitive computing;
- knowledge representation, reasoning, and decision-making;
- semantic web, linked data, and knowledge graphs;
- artificial general intelligence, autonomous agents, and collective intelligence;
- AI & security (AI as subject, object or instrument of attack and defence).
Student profile
We are looking for students who have a suitable higher education degree and adequate proficiency in the English language. You must also have basic skills in programming, as well as in using related information structures and algorithms.
Suitable fields of the previous degree include Data Science, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Applied Mathematics, Control Systems, Computational Science, Information Management, or other, related field.
In our courses, you will learn how to professionally use Artificial Intelligence (i.e., already developed models, algorithms, and tools) in your everyday business to solve complex problems or/and how to design and develop new and better artificial intelligence (i.e., new models, algorithms, and tools).
Career opportunities for AI graduates
The programme covers the following spectrum of activities for the future professional: from (a) the advanced use of the available AI methods, algorithms and tools (as black-boxes) within different domains and businesses (i.e., without deep understanding of the insights of these methods, algorithms and tools) to (b) the inventing, designing and developing of new advanced AI methods, algorithms and tools (assuming deep understanding of the insights of AI methods, algorithms and tools).
Therefore, graduates can work within any company either as an advanced developer or as an advanced user of AI tools, products, and services and graduates from the programme can find employment in a wide range of sectors, such as finance, education, construction, cybersecurity, defense, industry, or healthcare.
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Contact us
If you have questions concerning the admission process, please contact JYU Admission Services: admissions@jyu.fi
About tuition fees and the scholarship programme for students liable to pay tuition fees, please contact the International Office: degree-students@jyu.fi
If you have programme-specific questions for example on studies in the programme, or the suitability of the field of your previous degree when applying to the programme, please contact us: international-info-it@jyu.fi
