Informatics

Course Overview

The science of informatics concerns the systematic, automatized processing of information. It is a constantly evolving discipline that deals with how information is structured, presented, and processed in both natural and high-tech computational systems. The bachelor’s program in Informatics at the Technical University of Munich is exciting and challenging. Course content concerns not only informatics itself but also sustains a focus on its application. It offers you the opportunity to acquire solid theoretical, practical, and technical skills in this fast-moving field. No other science has changed our lives and the way we work in the last 30 years more than informatics. Mobile phones, digital cameras and PCs have become everyday commodities within an incredibly short time span and the internet has very quickly become omnipresent. Decisive breakthroughs in medicine, automotive engineering, or aerospace were first made possible by informatics. For a comprehensive description of the program, please refer to the degree program documentation: Degree program documentation for the Bachelor’s program in Informatics (PDF, German) As a graduate you possess sound knowledge of computer systems and mathematics. You will also have been able to acquire the first bases for specializing within the discipline. You are familiar with the fundamental concepts and rules of programming language, computer architecture, algorithms, data structures, software engineering, databases, computer networks, and operating systems. In addition to which, you will have been able to expand your mathematical skills in analysis, linear algebra, and discrete structures. Further, you understand the principles of theoretical informatics, probability theory, and statistics. During the course of your studies you will have been able to acquire knowledge of the specialties in which you are particularly interested. These include inter alia software engineering, databases, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, IT security, computer architecture, algorithms, and scientific computation. You will have been able to acquire your first experience of working on projects in interdisciplinary teams and you are also able to present your results to audiences of scientists. Although informatics is still a relatively young discipline, it has already assumed a lead role in industrial society. Graduates of the bachelor’s program in informatics go on to begin an exciting career in the fields of software engineering, research, and IT consultancy in Germany as well as internationally. They find employment in every industrial and economic sector, whether related to mechanical or electrical engineering, mathematics, or medicine. Graduates design complex information systems for commercial use, program robots, build data networks between banks and corporations, and develop traffic control systems – to mention just a handful of examples.