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Quality, not quantity

Manageable student numbers and a favorable student to teacher ratio ensure that you don't have to complete your degree in a setting of educational mass production. Crowded lecture halls and long waiting times for seminar places or final theses are not our thing. A personal atmosphere and ideal learning conditions are.

Networks and business contacts

We offer you great practical relevance with a series of practice-oriented series courses, e.g.

Advanced CSE Project

The Scientific Computing Centre Ulm (Ulmer Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen UZWR) has afforded the CSE programme numerous close and well established contacts.

Entry into the Master's programme also available in the summer semester

The CSE Master’s programme allows you to begin your studies both in the winter or the summer semester, which means no unnecessary waiting times! The admission statute offers you flexibility even if you haven't fully completed your Bachelor's degree.

CSE Master's Training Camp

Before each semester we offer a preparatory course with the aim to give all new CSE Master's students with their various Bachelor's backgrounds an equal footing for the upcoming compulsory courses. For more information on the CSE Master's Training Camp please click here (sorry available in german language only).

Attractive exchange programmes with international partner universities

Expanding you horizon, immersing yourself in different cultures – such experiences are more important than ever in the age of globalisation. We thus put a strong focus on the internationalisation of our programmes and strongly support semesters and internships abroad. Our cooperations with high-ranking partner universities offer fantastic opportunities for you to take your studies overseas. CSE students are double-enrolled and can access the exchange programmes of both Ulm University and Ulm University of Applied Sciences.

The Master's programme in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) provides both a research-oriented and highly practical education. This pathway graduates practitioners with broad mathematical knowledge and interdisciplinary competences that enable them to tackle problems in the areas of mathematical modelling, optimisation and numerical simulation of real situations found in natural sciences and engineering.

Graduates also know how to:

grasp and independently model complex mathematical problems from natural sciences and engineering,
develop adequate numeric methods and efficiently apply them on high-performance computers,
interpret simulation results,
lead a research team and plan projects.

The CSE Master’s programme is suitable for

CSE Bachelor’s graduates
graduates with a related Bachelor’s degree obtained at a German or foreign higher education institution in the areas of

- Mathematics
- Engineering
- Natural Sciences
- Computer Science
- Physics.

The CSE Master’s programme teaches in-depth knowledge in numeric simulation and high-performance computing. It also offers broad choices of specialisation within its compulsory elective areas of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science as well as Engineering and Natural Sciences. The interdisciplinary part interweaves these individual fields (see also Programme structure).

The CSE pathway is offered in close collaboration with Ulm University of Applied Sciences. This unique alliance combines the best of both worlds: the University's research orientation and the application orientation of the University of Applied Sciences.

The curriculum of the Master's programme schedules the following compulsory courses:

Compulsory modules

Numerical Optimisation
Mumerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
High Performance Computing (I+II)
Advanced CSE-Projekt
Seminar in CSE
Additive Transferable Skills (ASQ)

Compulsory elective modules in the areas of...

...Engineering and Natural Sciences (18-36 CP)
...Computer Science (0-18 CP)
...Applied Mathematics (6-24 CP)

You can choose these modules from the course catalogues of Ulm University and Ulm University of Applied Sciences. Each institution is responsible for their courses. This flexibility and range of choice allow you to set a very individual focus.

The CSE Master’s programme, like the Bachelor’s programme, is based on three main pillars: Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering and Natural Sciences. It also offers great flexibility and choice of what you want to focus on. The compulsory elective modules allow you to prioritise areas that are of particular interest to you. However, a certain amount of credit points must be achieved in each area.

The following compulsory elective modules (compulsory electives catalogue) are offered: (Wahlpflichtkatalog):

Numerical Biomechanics (UZWR in cooperation with the Institute of Orthopaedic Research and Biomechanics)
Strength, Vibration, Flow (e.g. im Institute of Numerical Mathematics; UZWR;)
Biochemistry (e.g.. MoSi in Biochemistry)
Theoretical Chemistry (at the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry)
• Electrical Engineering
Computer Science (e.g.. Institute of Embedded Systems/ Real-Time Systems)
Crash and Passenger Simulation
Vibration and Sonic Simulation: Structural Mechanics and Acoustics
Numerics
Big Data
and more

The innovative concept of the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) pathway is based on a unique alliance between Ulm University, Ulm University of Applied Sciences and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Ulm. The collaboration between the universities creates a study offer that is both research-oriented and practical. Especially in research the universities of Ulm have been cooperating successfully with businesses from the region for quite some time. Internships and final theses are often done in enterprises in the area. An increasing need for simulation engineers is beginning to show, particularly in small and medium-sized businesses that specialise in mechanical engineering. Graduates thus have great career prospects on regional, national and international levels.

This cooperation provides some special features for our CSE students:

Affiliations of the Computational Science and Engineering programme at Ulm University: Faculty of Mathematics and Economics, at Ulm University of Applied Sciences: Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Economics

Joint Commission
Enrolment both at Ulm University and at Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Lectures at Ulm University and at Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Extended choice of compulsory elective modules and additive transferable skills (ASQ) from both Ulm University and Ulm University of Applied Sciences
and more

The entrance requirements for the CSE Master’s programme is a Bachelor's degree in either Computational Science and Engineering or another degree programme with largely equivalent contents. Outstanding candidates with a degree in either Mathematics, Computer Science, Natural Sciences or Engineering obtained at a German or foreign higher education institution, or a qualification which is recognised as equivalent at the level of at least three years of study and knowledge in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Natural Sciences and Engineering that is equivalent in quantity and quality to that taught in the Bachelor's programme at Ulm University and Ulm University of Applied Sciences who fulfil the subject-specific requirements of the Master’s programme can apply as well.

For entrance requirements see: <link einrichtungen zuv dez1 recht-und-organisation satzungen-und-ordnungen studium-promotion-habilitation zulassungssatzungen internal-link>Admission statute Computational Science and Engineering

The Master’s programme Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) offers a variety of opportunities for you to spend some time abroad.

Semester abroad
Internship abroad

Semester abroad:

CSE offers via ERASMUS+ several exchange opportunities with partner institutions in other European countries. You can also choose locations outside of Europe. The Faculty of Mathematics organises an <link mawi mawi-ausland programme fakultaetsprogramme-usa-programm-mathematik _blank external-link-new-window internal link in current>exchange programme with universities in the USA with the additional option to obtain a second Master's degree.

Internship abroad:

The International Office helps with the arrangement of internships abroad.

For further information and contact persons see:

<link io internal-link internal link in current>International Office Ulm University
Study abroad (Faculty of Mathematics and Economics)
das International Office Ulm University of Applied Sciences
Course advisor Beate Mayer.

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