Master in Software Engineering
Bolzano, Italy
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
06 May 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 1,200 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* early bird application | late application (only for EU citizens): 09 July 2025
Key Summary
Introduction
In this program, you will learn how to leverage next-generation technologies such as Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, and Analytics to create, connect, optimize, and engineer innovative systems moving to pragmatic application and commercialization on a rapid and large scale.
The physical world and the virtual world (cyberspace) are converging into new generations of systems like Cyber-Physical Systems. Such systems monitor physical environments, communicate and cooperate with each other and with human beings in real time, and make decentralized intelligent decisions. They are highly dependent on components whose functionality is controlled by software.
With the revolution of Industry 4.0, manufactural production also begins to depend on these systems more and more. At the same time, companies and organizations still need IT to automatize their business processes and release human beings from the burden of repetitive and tedious operations.
Business software provides such support but requires a great knowledge of the operational environment in which it runs as it is developed to meet the needs of a specific business. Thus, designing and building software for such systems is an art that also requires skills in context analysis and customization.
Overall, there is an increasing need for a new generation of systems and software technologies that ensure robust, safe, secure, uninterrupted, and real-time operations - particularly in situations where human life or business is exposed to risk if the software fails.
In this Master's, you will learn how to conceive, design, implement, customize, and maintain these systems by applying software engineering principles to the industry practice and develop and test your prototypes. Courses are designed to provide you with advanced software engineering knowledge and practice of software and systems development complemented by competencies in lean management and entrepreneurship.
The internship program will drive you through a unique experience and can prepare you for your thesis work. The internship can be performed in companies or in collaboration with international research centers associated with the program. The learning experience you get with this Master's will give you a solid base for your future as a software and systems engineer
Admissions
Curriculum
- Foundations: these subjects provide the foundational knowledge of software engineering. They aim to homogenize the knowledge of students from different previous educational backgrounds and prepare them for studying advanced and specialized topics.
- Advanced topics: these subjects aim to develop the skills of students which complement the foundations, and are useful in the training of the professional figure of software engineers.
- Specialization topics: these subjects intend to provide students with knowledge specific to an application type or business domain, and prepare them for their thesis work.
1st Year - 1st Semester
- Software Design and Implementation
- Requirements Engineering
- Advanced Software Design Techniques
- Contemporary Software Development
- Agile Software Development
- Alternatives from Catalogue
Catalogue for the 1st Semester
- Software Maintenance and Evolution
- Extended Reality: Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality
- Software Quality and Metrics
- Parallel Computing
1st Year - 2nd Semester
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Verification and Reliability
- Software and Systems Security
- Seminar in Software Engineering Advances
- Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems
2nd Year - 3rd Semester
- Research Methods and Technology Transfer
- Free Choice Courses
- Internship
Catalogue for the 3rd Semester
- Embedded Systems Design and Implementation
- Information Retrieval
- Programming for Data Science
- Mobile Robotics
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Data Visualization and Exploration
- Entrepreneurial Software Engineering
- Design and Development of Business Software
- Microcontroller Programming
2nd Year - 4th Semester
- Alternatives from Catalogue
- Thesis
Exchange Programs and Internships
Currently, we offer exchange programs with more than 20 partner universities all over the world and we are part of a large network of collaboration with employers in Italy and abroad where you can undertake an optional internship with a maximum of 300 hours.
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Career Opportunities
Typical job profiles are Software and Information Systems Engineer: Analysis, design, implementation, customization, overhaul, and maintenance of intelligent solutions with high reliability and performance for information systems, by fully exploiting inventions and software technologies for pragmatic application and rapid commercialization, in real-time and on a large scale. Such information systems include ICT, business, industrial automotive, automation and control, scientific and data processing, the management of complex infrastructures, cyber-physical systems;
On the website of AlmaLaurea you can check our outstanding statistical data about the satisfaction of our graduates, and their employability.
English Language Requirements
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Program Admission Requirements
Demonstrate your commitment and readiness to succeed in business school by taking the GMAT exam – the most widely used exam for admissions that measures your critical thinking and reasoning skills.
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