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Ask HN: German Universities for Masters in Computer Science

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Post by haidrali »

I am BS computer science with two years of development experience in Java, Python and Ruby with multiple frameworks and platforms. I am planing to study Master's but i can't afford much so Pakistan and Germany are my options. Problem with Pakistani universities is that they really didn't focus on research also option of specialization in Information Retrial or Natural Language Processing is not there so don't want to be there. Would you recommend me to study Masters from German university keeping in mind i want to have specialization in Natural Language Processing or Information Retrial. Suggestion by universities name if any will be highly appreciated. If there is any other university/institute where NLP and IR specialization are offered in Masters please do comment.

Thank you so much for reading my post.

Re: Ask HN: German Universities for Masters in Computer Science

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Post by Tomte »

The TU9 could be a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU9

In computer science, Karlsruhe, Aachen and the TU Munich (TU -- there are three universities in Munich) are the most prestigious, although I've always percepted alumni from those three as being somewhat snobbish.

When it comes to computational linguistics, Saarbrücken is probably the very best, but Stuttgart (my alma mater) is also really good.

Re: Ask HN: German Universities for Masters in Computer Science

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Post by krylon »

haidrali wrote: post #7
qwerta wrote: post #5

Do you speak German? Otherwise I would recommend small post-soviet countries: Estonia, Slovakia...

At the moment no i don't but i have heard that medium of instruction is English at master level in Germany Is it right ?

A friend of mine studies computer science at the University of Paderborn (he, too, has a B.S. and is studying for his master degree). I know that at least some of his courses are in English.

From what I know, Paderborn is a good university for CS, but I don't know if they have any researchers working in your preferred areas.

EDIT: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/

Re: Ask HN: German Universities for Masters in Computer Science

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Post by qwerta »

haidrali wrote: post #7
qwerta wrote: post #5

Do you speak German? Otherwise I would recommend small post-soviet countries: Estonia, Slovakia...

At the moment no i don't but i have heard that medium of instruction is English at master level in Germany Is it right ?

Not sure. Never studied in Germany. Just make sure to speak some real foreigner students.

If you dont have local local languages, I would avoid large countries such as France, Italy, Germany or even Poland. Smaller post-soviet countries have sort 'self-esteem issue' and they will be probably friendlier to English-only speaker.

Re: Ask HN: German Universities for Masters in Computer Science

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Post by haidrali »

Tomte wrote: post #6

The TU9 could be a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU9 In computer science, Karlsruhe, Aachen and the TU Munich (TU -- there are three universities in Munich) are the most prestigious, although I've always percepted alumni from those three as being somewhat snobbish. When it comes to computational linguistics, Saarbrücken is probably the very best, but Stuttgart (my alma mater) is also really good.

Can you please tell me about tuition fee and avg living cost for a person in Germany. I came to know that most of the universities didn't have tuition fee Thanks
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