Universidade Santiago de Compostela
Master's Degree in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational ModelingSantiago de Compostela, Spain
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
Spanish, Galician, English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 1,089
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The master's degree provides advanced training in quantum chemistry and other areas of computational chemistry, both at the level of applications and the development of computational methods and tools.
It is a coordinated interuniversity master's degree in which 14 Spanish universities and another 10 European universities participate. The Spanish ones are Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona, Cantabria, Extremadura, the Balearic Islands, Jaume I of Castellón, Murcia, Oviedo, the Basque Country/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Salamanca, Valencia, Valladolid and Vigo, with the general coordination of the Autonomous University of Madrid. The foreign ones are: Sorbonne Université, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Université de Montpellier, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Université de Bordeaux, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Università degli studi di Trieste, Università di Pisa, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and KU Leuven. The first year of the master's degree is taught at the state level and the second at the European level.
The master's degree provides advanced training in quantum chemistry and other areas of computational chemistry, both at the level of applications and the development of computational methods and tools.
Curriculum
The master's degree lasts two years, 120 credits:
- Mandatory: 47
- Electives: 43
- Master's Final Project: 30
- Students must take mandatory subjects during the first year and complete with credits corresponding to optional subjects up to a minimum of 60 (including mandatory credits).
- In the second year, advanced aspects of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry will be studied and the Master's Thesis will be completed.
The Master's Academic Committee, after evaluating the academic record, will be the one that allows admission to the master's degree whether or not the completion of training complements done outside the master's degree.
The master's degree is taught in English.
Program Outcome
- Train the student for research in the field of theoretical and computational chemistry. This will facilitate access to the Doctorate in the areas of chemistry, physics, life sciences or materials sciences and, in turn, the possibility of becoming a professor at a university or a researcher at any research institution.
- As experts in computational techniques, students will leave prepared to apply any of the scientific codes available on the market or to develop new ones. Your skills will be well suited to the design of molecules, aggregates, and atomic and molecular processes. Therefore, they will be good candidates for jobs in the pharmaceutical industry, petrochemical companies, and the new materials industry. They also have an adequate profile to work profitably in any company as computer experts (finance and economics, computing, information technologies, data mining, consulting on decision problems and optimization, statistics, research and development, etc.) .
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Career Opportunities
This master's degree enables you to develop doctoral theses in Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Modeling: fields such as chemistry, physics, life sciences or materials sciences; and also in applications to very diverse fields: chemical reactivity, spectroscopy, catalysis, bioinformatics, materials science, etc., of professional interest for the pharmaceutical, petrochemical and new materials industries.