Master of Science in International Software Systems Science

# Application and Admission

Admission

Requirements for the Master's program International Software Systems Science:

• Academic bachelors degree of at least six semesters (180 ECTS) in Software Systems Science or in a closely related bachelors degree programme\* such as, but not limited to Informatics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering.
• Final overall grade in the bachelors degree must be at least second class corresponding to the German grade 2.0.
• English language proficiency must be above level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), corresponding to at least IELTS 6.5, TOEFL iBT 90 (internet based) or equivalent.
• Applicants with a qualifying degree from ouside the European Union (Lissabon Convention) and whose final mark of the qualifying degree is less than 1.5 (German grade), require a Graduate Record of Examination (GRE) General Test or a Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE) with at least 153 in Verbal Reasoning, 164 in Quantitative Reasoning and 4.0 in Analytical Writing.

\*A closely related bachelors degree must cover:

• At least 115 ECTS credit points worth of modules in mathematical foundations, computer science and software engineering including a bachelors thesis in one of these fields or in applied computer sciences
• At least 34 ECTS credit points in Mathematics and Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science (covering propositional and predicate logic, linear algebra, calculus, probability theory, automata and formal languages, mathematical software analysis)
• At least 33 ECTS credit points in Programming and Software Science (covering procedural and non-procedural programming, algorithms and data structures, object-oriented modelling and software engineering)