Software Engineering

The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “Software Engi­neer­ing” offers a mas­ter’s degree fo­cused on the area of soft­ware engi­neer­ing to excel­lent com­puter sci­ence stu­dents from Ger­many and abroad. The stu­dents re­ceive a pro­fes­sional educa­tion with a strong con­nec­tion to re­search and prac­tice, they bene­fit from soft-skill train­ings, net­work­ing with indus­trial part­ners and an inten­sive sup­port in small groups. All cours­es of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram are of­fered exclu­sively to its stu­dents.

The stu­dents gain an in-depth under­stand­ing of all core as­pects of soft­ware engi­neer­ing. The pro­gram covers meth­ods and pro­cesses of soft­ware devel­op­ment, soft­ware archi­tec­tures and dis­tribut­ed sys­tems, data­bases, hu­man-comput­er-inter­action and formal devel­op­ment of safe­ty-criti­cal sys­tems. Fur­ther­more, in the con­text of soft­ware engi­neer­ing, cur­rent topics like ma­chine learn­ing, self-organizing sys­tems, and data sci­ence are in­clud­ed.

Besides the high tech­nical quali­ty, stu­dents bene­fit from work­shops and semi­nars in social skills, which are essen­tial in team-based soft­ware engi­neer­ing and in lead­ership roles. They are pre­pared to take over re­spon­sible roles in econ­omy and sci­ence.

The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram is closely con­nected with re­search and prac­tice. Se­lected indus­trial part­ners sup­port the pro­gram and offer inter­esting addi­tional possi­bilities to the stu­dents. A se­ries of special guest lec­tures from sci­ence and indus­try as well as an intern­ship in the indus­try com­plete the teach­ing in the pro­gram and ensure practi­cal rele­vance.

The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram has a strong inter­na­tional net­work, which allows the stu­dents to do their mas­ter’s thesis abroad. About half of the mas­ter’s theses in the pro­gram result from re­search intern­ships at re­nowned in­terna­tional insti­tu­tions. Many mas­ter’s theses even lead to a sci­entific publi­cati­on.