Master's Degree Programme in High-Performance Computing
From the Master’s Degree Programme in High-Performance Computing, you will get a strong foundation for understanding and using emerging technologies such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and multicore programming in different application areas.
By choosing this programme, you will learn to develop and apply parallel and distributed computing methods to multidisciplinary problems. Through your studies, you will be able to develop and implement sophisticated data mining and machine learning methods for different types of data. Additionally, you will be able to keep pace with the rapid development of these technologies and apply them to solve large and challenging computational problems.
Programme info
Applications for master's degree programmes can be submitted once a year in January.
Master’s Degree Programme in High-Performance Computing is a two-year (120 ECTS) full-time programme taught in English. It is provided together by the Faculty of Mathematics and Science and the Faculty of Information Technology. You can specialise in either Computer Science, Chemistry or Physics.
The overarching theme of the programme is combining skills in computer science to pressing problems in natural sciences. Many of the scientific challenges related to climate change or energy production and –consumption need the concepts and understanding of natural sciences, the so-called first principles understanding. However, understanding these principles is not enough: one needs people skilled in using computational tools to effectively solve the numerical problems that arise when those principles are applied in real-life situations such as complex materials, the atmosphere or for example biomedical innovations.
Student profile
We are looking for students with a suitable higher education degree and adequate proficiency in the English language. If you have acquired the required skills in programming, data, mathematics, and theoretical computer science outside your formal degree education, relevant proof of this must be provided.
Career opportunities for HPC graduates
In this programme, we train multidisciplinary specialists able to operate, solve problems, and learn new skills in research and development requiring demanding computational research and development tasks. You will become an expert skilled in driving HPC adoption and knowledge transfer in industry and academia in different strategic domains, thereby making an important contribution to joint industry-academia R&D efforts.
Possible job titles for graduates of this programme: computer scientist, data scientist, data analyst, software engineer, computational chemist/physicist.
Additionally, soft skills like responsibility, professionalism, ethics, resource wisdom, goal orientation, and teamwork are part of every graduate's toolbox.
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If you have questions concerning the admission process or the programme, 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
