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Ask HN: What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

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Post by ErrantX »

Probably not what your looking for but I am in the middle of doing a postgraduate Masters (an MSC) with the Open University (www.open.ac.uk). They're distance learning - but are highly recommended (i.e. they are in no way the "poor mans" alternative).

Alternatively I can recommend Leeds University, UK (where I did my undergraduate degree in engineering - not CS). The Electronic Engineering department wasn't great but the CS dept. is, from the little I saw, pretty accomplished. Though I couldnt comment on their reputation :)

(EDIT: Leeds has 2 Universities. I refer to the University of Leeds not Leeds Metropolitan.)

Re: Ask HN: What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

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Post by david927 »

Saarland University has an amazing reputation for programming language research. I'd like to do my Ph.D. there in the next few years.

http://frweb.cs.uni-sb.de

And ETH in Zurich is the rough equivalent of MIT in the States: http://www.ethz.ch/index_EN

Re: Ask HN: What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

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Post by jacquesm »

Well, it highly depends on what you want to study, computer science is pretty broad.

Probably the best way to figure this out is to pick your chosen subfield, then find out who is prominent in that field and then where they lecture.

For instance, Amsterdam has Tanenbaum, but if you're not into OS research then that is probably not going to help you. (I'm not even sure if he still lectures).

Re: Ask HN: What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

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jacquesm wrote: post #4

Well, it highly depends on what you want to study, computer science is pretty broad. Probably the best way to figure this out is to pick your chosen subfield, then find out who is prominent in that field and then where they lecture. For instance, Amsterdam has Tanenbaum, but if you're not into OS research then that is probably not going to help you. (I'm not even sure if he still lectures).

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Re: Ask HN: What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

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Post by RiderOfGiraffes »

ErrantX wrote: post #2

Probably not what your looking for but I am in the middle of doing a postgraduate Masters (an MSC) with the Open University (www.open.ac.uk). They're distance learning - but are highly recommended (i.e. they are in no way the "poor mans" alternative). Alternatively I can recommend Leeds University, UK (where I did my undergraduate degree in engineering - not CS). The Electronic Engineering department wasn't great but…

I believe that most courses and most degrees with the Open University are excellent in scope and delivery. Neil Fraser has a different experience:

http://neil.fraser.name/news/2006/09/01/

Re: Ask HN: What is the best university in Europe for MS in Computer Science?

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Post by ErrantX »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #6
ErrantX wrote: post #2

Probably not what your looking for but I am in the middle of doing a postgraduate Masters (an MSC) with the Open University (www.open.ac.uk). They're distance learning - but are highly recommended (i.e. they are in no way the "poor mans" alternative). Alternatively I can recommend Leeds University, UK (where I did my undergraduate degree in engineering - not CS). The Electronic Engineering department wasn't great but…

I believe that most courses and most degrees with the Open University are excellent in scope and delivery. Neil Fraser has a different experience: http://neil.fraser.name/news/2006/09/01/

Ouch.

I admit there are limitations. I think dissertation wise it depends what tutor you get (I wont start my diss till next year but my tutor seems pretty clued in :)).

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