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This Master program has been designed as a one academic year degree and it is offered in English. The topics covered by the degree correspond to 60 ETCS credits, approximately equivalent to 400 hours of classes and 1100 hours of work from the students.

It has been structured around 18 3-credit courses, offered during four 7-week periods. Five subjects are covered during each period, corresponding to 15 hours of class per week.

A Master’s Thesis is required. It should provide the students with experience in the treatment of real data in a particular area of interest. It would be completed during the second half of the year.

For those students who consider making the Master part time in two academic years, it is recommended to follow one of the two options that can be found at the following link:

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GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION

☛ First year offered: 2015

• Verification Report

QUALITY INDICATORS

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PROGRAMME’S QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Academic Committee of the Master’s programme complies with the SGIC-UC3M and it is responsible for the follow-up, analysis, review, assessment and quality of the program, it contributes with proposals to improve the program and produces the “Memoria Académica de Titulación” (Programme Report).

• Academic Committee

FACULTY AND COURSE PLAN

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Graduate Profile and Competences

• Graduate profile and competences

Application

The request must be submitted electronically through our application system. Before beginning the admission process, please read the following information:

• Documentation that must be uploaded to the on line application
• Calendar and general information about admission 
• Follow the step-by-step instructions in the application for admission

Requirements

The candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in any of the following areas:

• Computer Science
• Telecommunications Engineering
• Statistics
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Industrial Engineering

Candidates with other backgrounds (like Business/Administration, Economics, Medicine or Health Sciences) could also be considered, but they should justify required levels of knowledge in the fields of Mathematics (Algebra and Calculus), Statistics (Probability and Inference) and Computer Science (basic programming skills). In any case, and depending on each particular case, the Master’s Academic Committee may recommend to students already admitted to carry out, prior to the beginning of the Master’s classes, one or more on line courses (MOOCs) about some of the previous contents.

Professional experience is not required, but it will be considered as an asset within the admissions process.

Admission criteria

The Master´s direction will evaluate the application based on the criteria described below, and informing to the student about the admission to the Master, motivated denial of admission or the inclusion in a list of provisional expected:

• Academic record (40%)
• Professional experience (20%)
• Quantitative and computer science background of the student (10%)
• Letters of recommendation submitted by the applicant (10%)
• Others (10%)
• English level (previous degree in english)

Student profile

The student who wants to pursue this Master must have good mathematical and statistical base, and a basic knowledge of programming. Likewise, should have sufficient ability to work with Web tools and an interest in real problems of processing data in different application areas .

You must also have sufficient capacity for problem identification data processing in real environments , formalizing them and interpretation of the results obtained from the application of computational tools for this data processing.

The interest in various aspects related to the management of companies and organizations will also be useful for the use of the teachings of the Master . Finally , creativity , imagination , innovation and motivation for continuous learning are characteristics with a significant contribution to the success in the use of lessons to be taught in this Master .

Language requirements

Check the general language requirements required to study a Master’s at UC3M, depending on whether it is in Spanish, English or bilingual.

students with foreign university degrees

Once admitted to the Master’s program, students holding a university degree from a higher education institution outside the EHEA must provide the diploma, legalized through diplomatic procedures or by The Hague Apostille, for enrollment. They must also submit their transcript of records, including the grade point average, duly legalized.

More information about Legalization of Foreign Documents.

If needed, documents must be accompanied by an official sworn translation into Spanish.

TUITION FEES*

Reservation fee: €450 

• it will be paid once the student receives notification of admission to the master’s, and deducted from the first tuition payment
• the reservation fee will only be refunded if the master program is cancelled
   

✎│Tuition fees
 

NOTE: the indicated public prices do not include in any case, neither the ECTS corresponding to the Formative Complements that the student must take (only master's degrees with previous Formative Complements), nor the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate.

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* Current fees for the 24/25 academic year, pending approval by the Community of Madrid for the 25/26 academic year.

Additional information

• You may enrol on the master’s degree after completing the admission process and receiving formal confirmation of your acceptance.
• When performing the enrolment you can choose between Full-time enrolment or Part-time enrolment.
• The email address provided upon enrolment will be used for formal communications; students are therefore kindly requested to check their mail regularly.
• Pursuant to the regulations of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, a student failing to pay any part of the fees will not be admitted and the enrolment process will be terminated. In cases of cancellation of enrolment due to non-payment, the University may demand the payment of the pending amounts for enrolment in previous academic courses as a prior condition of enrolment.
  No diploma or certificate will be issued if a student has any outstanding payments.

✎│Enrolment master’s programmes

✎│ECTS credits recognition

Best Practices and Regulations

• Student cohabitation system
• Ethical code
• Enrollment and permanence rules
• Master's degree access rules
• Master's Thesis rules
• Rules for credits recognition

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