BSc in Artificial Intelligence
Groningen, Netherlands
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 May 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 19,300 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Dutch, EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA students
** for Non-EU|for EU/EEA EUR 2,530
Introduction
How can you develop an autonomous car? How does a computer recognize speech or emotions? How can software and devices be aligned to the way humans think?
In the international Bachelor's degree program in Artificial Intelligence, you will study intelligence and develop 'intelligent' and user-friendly products.
This international degree program focuses on human thinking, artificial thinking (computers, robots), and behavior in social systems (e.g. group behavior). You will study the underlying processes in order to predict or simulate behavior.
Interdisciplinary curriculum
Artificial Intelligence draws on knowledge from various disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, linguistics, data science, computing science, logic, and philosophy. You will develop skills in these areas in the first year, after which you deepen your knowledge in the subdiscipline you prefer, such as machine learning, robotics, or cognitive science.
Translating knowledge into practical applications
There are many applications in which intelligence and usable technology are indispensable, in ticket machines for example. This degree program, therefore,ย has a strong practical orientation.
Please note: AI has a fixed quota (numerus fixus), for which a selection procedure takes place.
Why study this program in Groningen?
- Artificial Intelligence in Groningen has been designated as the best Artificial Intelligence education in the Netherlands, reviewed by Elsevier and the Keuzegids (Dutch Higher Education Guide).
- We have a unique position when it comes to research on cognitive modeling, logic, and handwriting recognition.
- Artificial Intelligence in Groningen is an international bachelor. When you have graduated, jobs will be available to you all over the world!
- Our faculty is the home of Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Ben Feringa, and Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Frits Zernike.
Research
Our Bachelor's degree program in Artificial Intelligence is connected to the Bernoulli Institute.
The mission of the Bernoulli Institute is to perform outstanding academic research and teaching in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence, and to maintain international leadership herein; to foster these disciplines as a living body of knowledge, and to make it relevant to society in its broadest sense.
The symbiosis between pure and applied science, and between mono- and multidisciplinary research and teaching, is a distinguishing characteristic of our institute. As an important part of this mission, we aim to transfer our results to other areas of science and technology and initiate and expand inter-and multi-disciplinary research collaborations.
The following research groups within the Bernoulli institute focus on Artificial Intelligence:
- Autonomous Perceptive Systems
- Cognitive Modeling
- Multi-Agent Systems
Curriculum
Year 1
- Algorithms and Data Structures in C
- Artificial Intelligence I
- Autonomous Systems
- Basic Scientific Skills
- Calculus
- Cognitive Psychology, Logic
- General Linguistics
- Imperative Programming
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Introduction to Logic
- Introduction to the Brain
- Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus
Year 2
- Advanced Logic
- Architectures of Intelligence
- Knowledge and Agent Technology
- Language and Speech Technology
- Neural Networks
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Philosophy of Cognitive Science
- Practicals in e.g. Autonomous Systems, Knowledge Technology
- Practicals in e.g. Language and Speech Technology
- Signals and Systems
- Statistics
Year 3
- Artificial Intelligence II
- Bachelor Project (10 EC)
- Minor Electives (15 EC)
- Neurophysics
Curriculum
- Credits per year: 60 ECTS; most courses are 5 ECTS.
Study abroad
- Study abroad is unaccommodated
- Maximum of 30 EC
Admissions
Gallery
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Job prospects
A degree in Artificial Intelligence equips you for a wide range of fields, precisely because your knowledge is so broad and you can approach matters from various perspectives. You can also communicate well with other specialists in the discipline. That makes you highly employable for companies and organizations. You will have broad knowledge and a logical reasoning abilityโฆ therefore excellent career prospects!
Finding work when you graduate
Many graduates find suitable jobs in the business sector in the Netherlands or abroad. Other graduates choose another path, such as setting up their own business. Once they have their Bachelor's degree, most students choose a related Master's program in Artificial Intelligence or Human-Machine Communication. When you choose Artificial Intelligence you can work at institutions that work with large data files, like hospitals or banks. You can also find a job at research and development departments of multinationals and build autonomous systems. When you go for Human-Machine Communication, you can become a cognitive ergonomist and develop software and devices.
User-friendly software or devices
With your Master's degree, you are employable in companies that produce software or devices. Among other things, your work will involve making these as user-friendly as possible. Examples of companies our graduates currently work at are Accenture, Ethical Hacker, TNO, Deloitte, Educational game researcher, Nederlands Forensisch Instituut, ORTEC, KPN Consulting, Achmea, en Almende.
Job examples
- Business consultant
- Data analyst
- Machine learning engineer
- Software developer
- Robotics engineer
- Data scientist
- IT consultant
- User interface expert
- Researcher
- Scientific programmer
- IT-freelancer in a start-up
- AI specialist