Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Utrecht University
Key Information
Campus location
Utrecht, Netherlands
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 2,209 / per year **
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* Non-EU/EEA students: 1 April
** EU/EEA, Surinam or Swiss students; €20,750: International students
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Introduction
Are you curious...
- How can AI help us make decisions?
- How does AI improve our safety?
- How you can design and develop AI systems that can learn from humans and from each other?
- How you can improve communication with AI systems?
- How does AI affect our intelligence?
If you’re interested in questions like these, then the Artificial Intelligence Master’s program at Utrecht University might be it for you!
Why in Utrecht
Interdisciplinary
The Artificial Intelligence Master’s program is an interdisciplinary degree program. The students and lecturers come from a variety of backgrounds, such as the social sciences or physics. So we can all learn from each other and examine problems from a wider perspective. Your focus will therefore lie on the full spectrum of AI, not just one component.
Labs
Utrecht University has set up a variety of AI labs where students can join with businesses and organizations like the Police or KLM Royal Dutch Airways to work on relevant issues. The following AI labs are currently in use:
- Police Lab AI
- AI & Mobility Lab
- AI & Sustainability Lab
- AI & Media Lab
Program Outcome
The Development of AI Systems
Artificial Intelligence is a fast-paced and challenging field that is making visible inroads into our everyday life. Developments quickly follow one other, and it is vital to apply them to new innovations, such as logistical applications for the railway timetable or self-driving cars. In this Master’s program, we’ll work on the development of these AI systems and examine how we can implement the technology for the benefit of society.
An Integrative and Cutting-Edge Approach
This Master’s offers you an integrative and cutting-edge approach to the field from the viewpoints of Informatics, Logic, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics. How do computers learn? How do they represent knowledge? And how do they reason? These are the questions we’ll deal with in the Artificial Intelligence Master’s program. We’ll test the systems we develop in our very own AI labs, where we collaborate with a variety of businesses.
Curriculum
The Artificial Intelligence program is a full-time two-year program (120 EC), consisting of a 76 EC course part and a 44 EC research part. Each year is divided into two semesters, running from September until January and from February until June.
Courses
The course part in this program consists of:
- Compulsory courses (16 EC): two courses that every student in the program takes, plus two mini-courses
- Primary electives (30 EC): four courses (out of a set of 16 courses)
- Secondary electives (30 EC): four courses to give your program a personal flavor, to be chosen from a broad pre-defined set of secondary elective courses (a.o. short research projects or courses from other, related programs such as computer science, neuroscience, cognition, linguistics, and philosophy).
Career Opportunities
Solid Fundament
Graduates of this program carry out AI research in academic or R&D environments, and they identify how AI techniques can provide intelligent solutions to IT problems in companies and organizations. We want to emphasize that the program does not focus on particular products or tools from specific vendors; instead, we study underlying techniques and methods that are of a longer-lasting value.
Academic Careers
Research
Students interested in research can apply for a Ph.D. position after graduation. Such positions are regularly available within the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Intelligent Systems group at Utrecht University. There are ample contacts with other universities as well, partly through the Dutch research school SIKS (School for Knowledge and Information Systems). Some positions are sponsored by companies or the Dutch research council. Graduates may also find challenging positions in R&D departments of international companies, governments, and the banking and insurance sectors.
Professional Careers
Industry
Graduates interested in a career in industry are well qualified for jobs in many different areas, such as banking, insurance, consultancy, government policy, telecommunications, consumer electronics, Agent-oriented software companies.
Their tasks may consist of developing new products and applications or directing such activities. Graduates can also choose the exciting path of creating a start-up company in an emerging market.
"Companies really like students from this Master's, because they are trained in both computer science and the social part. Because of this, they are able to act as a bridge between the managers and the computer scientists".
Lucy van Oostveen, alumnus