Constructor Institute Of Technology
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
The Master of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Leadership at CIT Schaffhausen combines a research-oriented technological education that also delivers essential management and leadership skills to educate future tech leaders. Following the Swiss academic system, it is a 4 semester (2 year) program of 120 ECTS credits.
The program includes technical courses in three core subject areas that are currently in high demand globally:
Software engineering
Cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence
Each student selects one of these three areas as their specialized field of study.
Technical courses include: Quality Engineering, Software Construction, Software Architecture and Software Engineering, Cyber Protection, Data Science, Architectural strategy, Dynamic Analysis and Deep Learning, System Protection, Quantum Informatics and Programmatic Marketing
Management courses include: Product Vision, Strategy, Innovation and Marketing; Product design; Portfolio Management and Analytics and Transformational Change Management
Leadership courses include: Organizational Behavior and Industrial-Organizational Psychology; Agile Leadership and Strategic Management; Customer Centric Mindset; Agile Delivery Management, and Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship
All students are introduced to practical, applied and research-oriented work through a three semester Capstone project. The series spans over three modules during which students develop a complete product from scratch. The project simulates the life cycle of IT product development, starting with an initial concept and ideation process, then creation of clickable demos, and initial requirements. It continues with the practical creation of a software architecture and development of the solution. It then finishes with applications and integrations of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and the project is presented in the third semester.r
The final semester (30 ECTS) is dedicated to the master's thesis, with individual feedback sessions and personal guidance from a faculty member.
Finally, the Institute team and program faculty also support those who are interested to pursue an optional summer internship between the first and second year with personalized guidance, to help place the candidate in a relevant and meaningful internship within the Constructor ecosystem or amongst our industry partners.
