Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme on the Engineering of Data-intensive Intelligent Software Systems
EDISS intends to bring together software engineering educators working in data collection, data-driven assessment, and decision-making for both design- and runtime and software engineers, architects and data scientists working on data pipelines, data architectures, DataOps and in experimentation systems. We expect that such synergy will lead to sharing knowledge and expertise, and thus create new ideas and impactful solutions.
Admission requirements
Minimum eligibility criteria
A Bachelor’s or equivalent undergraduate degree (at least 180 ECTS) from an accredited university, in computer science, software engineering or equivalent subject.
Good command of English language: TOEFL iBT (minimum score 93) or IELTS Academic (minimum score 6,5 with no individual score under 6).
Admission requirements
Degree requirements
EDISS requires knowledge of basic computer science, software engineering, and applied mathematics. The student should be able to solve basic computer science problems, to build a given software artefact (e.g. a requirements model, a design model), to improve and fix a given design.
The student should be eager to learn new technologies and methods, instead of only working with technologies or methods she/he has prior knowledge of, and be capable of sharing and producing knowledge in a team.
Degree certificate
Applicants must have a Bachelor’s or equivalent undergraduate degree (at least 180 ECTS) from an accredited university in computer science, software engineering or equivalent subject. The applicant is expected to have passed courses in several of the following areas: computer science (e.g. programming, algorithms and data structures), basic computer architecture, computer networks, software engineering and mathematics.
If proof of qualification is not available at the time of application, students will be conditionally admitted, and they are required to submit the required degree certificate and transcript of academic records and their translations by July 29th, 2022 at 15:00 (Helsinki time) to finalize the admission procedure. The applicants should also attach an official statement from the higher education institution which states the expected graduation date and the missing courses in the application form.
Language requirements
All applicants must have good English language proficiency. The English language proficiency must be proved by
- TOEFL (iBT) test: minimum score 93
- IELTS (Academic) test: minimum score 6,5 (with no individual score below 6)
The TOEFL reporting code for Åbo Akademi University is 9880. For IELTS, when possible, choose Åbo Akademi University for results to be sent and confirmed. The test results must be valid and verifiable at the test organizer at least 14 days after the end of the application period. Please note that no other tests, or versions of the above-mentioned tests (e.g. Home edition), will be approved to demonstrate the English language proficiency.
Exemption criterion
The English language test is NOT required from applicants who have received their secondary education in English, or have completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with English as the language of instruction (and mentioned in the diploma), in a university or university-level institution in one of the following countries:
- Australia
- Canada
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- the United Kingdom
- the United States
- an EU/EEA country or
- Switzerland
Note that to be exempted to provide an English language test score, the degree certificate must mention English as the language of instruction, and the degree programme must be completed in one of the countries listed above. Degrees completed as distance education or studies on an offshore campus are not accepted even though the degree would be issued by a university in one of the countries mentioned above.
Application process
The application form must be filled in on the Finnish national Studyinfo portal during the application period.
The application period dates are published:
Application period: 15 November 2021 – 27 December 2021
Application period for self-paying students only (i.e. no scholarships available): 2 March 2022 – 11 March 2022
How to fill in the application?
You must fill in the online application form on the Studyinfo portal and upload the required scanned enclosures (in color and in pdf format) by the given application deadline. Please note that when you start filling in the online application form, you will need to finish your application at the same time, i.e. it is not possible to save and complete the information in the text boxes at a later stage. Enclosures can be attached/changed during the whole application period.
Please note that the EDISS Consortium will not process applications/documents that have arrived after the deadline. In addition, the Consortium will not review or comment any application documents sent by email during the application process.
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