Why study at ?
  • Although not the only focus, our programme puts a lot of emphasis on embedded software and functional programming.
  • We teach a unique range of software analysis techniques and application down to practical/commercial use in industry.
  • This specialisation builds on the strong international reputation of the?Institute for Computing and Information Sciences?(iCIS) in areas such as model based and virtual product development, advanced programming, and domain specific languages. We also closely collaborate with the?Embedded Systems Institute.
  • Our approach is pragmatic as well as theoretical. As an academic, we don?t just expect you to understand and make use of the appropriate tools, but also to program and develop your own.
  • For your Master?s research we have a large number of companies like Philips, ASML and NXP offering projects.
  • Thanks to free electives students can branch out to other Computing Science domains at Radboud University such as security, machine learning or more in-depth mathematical foundations of computer science.
  • The job opportunities are excellent: some of our students get offered jobs before they?ve even graduated and almost all of our graduates have positions within six months after graduating.
Career prospects

Writing good software is a highly creative process, which requires the ability to approach problems in entirely novel ways through computational thinking. Besides creativity, a professional software scientist also has fine problem-solving, analytical, programming, and communication skills. By combining software programming, model-checking techniques and human intellect, software scientists can make a real difference to help and improve the devices that govern such a large part of our lives.

The job perspective for our graduates is excellent. Industry desperately needs software science specialists at an academic level, and thus our graduates have no difficulty in find an interesting and challenging job. Several of our graduates decide to go for a PhD and stay at a university, but most of our students go for a career in industry. They then typically either find a job at a larger company as consultant or programmer, or they start up their own software company.

Examples of companies where our graduates end up include the big Dutch high-tech companies such as Oc?, ASML, Vanderlande and Philips, ICT service providers such as Topicus and Info Support and companies started by Radboud graduates, like GX Software.

Want to know more?

Would you like to learn more about this programme and Radboud University? Join us for our Master?s Open Day on 16 March 2019! To learn more and register for this exciting event, visit www.ru.nl/masters/openday.