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Educational requirements: Specialist's or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related fields with a strong scientific or technical focus.
Language requirements: TOEFL (minimum score: 570 (papertest); 230 (computertest); 89 (internet)); IELTS (minimum score: 6.5), A Cambridge Examination Score with a minimum score of CAE A or B+, CPE B is also accepted.
Objectives: The Grid Computing masters’ degree course has as its aim to educate students to become active members of the computer science research and/or advanced development communities, valued for their understanding of parallel and distributed systems at all scales and the various applications to which these systems can be put.
Subjects: You can choose from five programmes. Each one will broaden your background in Computer Science and will make you an expert in the Grid Computing field chosen: bioinformatics; computational science; computer systems architecture; program algebra & generic programming; free programme.
Modes of instruction: Lectures, research, thesis.