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This page provides information on the European Masters in Informatics (EuMI) degree programme at the University of Edinburgh that is relevant for students who have Edinburgh as their main (first) or partner (second) university in the 2009/10 academic session.
The general structure of the curriculum is the following:
This document describes interaction of Edinburgh's degree requirements with those of Aachen and Trento, in order to help you construct your personal study plans within the constraints of the two EuMI universities that you will be visiting.
While in Edinburgh, no matter whether Edinburgh is your first or second university, you are required to take 50 ECTS (= 100 Scotcat credits) of courses (excluding the project & dissertation) in the course of the year.
Course choices are subject to the following constraints:
The Edinburgh EuMI curriculum offers two specialisms: Life-Science Informatics and Net-Centric Informatics. The specific courses that you can take in Edinburgh within your chosen EuMI specialism are shown in information on compulsory and optional courses by specialism.
Students who participate in IRR are assigned to a study group in Semester 1. These groups are arranged according to the Edinburgh MSc (not EuMI!) specialisms, and to ensure a good choice of review group, EuMI students are required to choose their IRR preferences from the following lists:
Provided the above constraints are respected, the remaining courses will depend on your EuMI specialism, as discussed earlier.
The final thesis (project & dissertation in Edinburgh terminology) is a significant part of the EuMI degree programme. It is always administered by the second university, i.e., it is formally taken and submitted at that university according to that university's local rules. An additional supervisor is assigned by the first university who ensures that it is also of acceptable standard for that university. This additional supervisor also acts as second marker, applying the assessment regulations and marking criteria of the second university. After agreeing on a project with the main supervisor, you must send the second supervisor a thesis research proposal at least three months prior to submission that she or he has to approve. If Edinburgh is your second university this will be the IRP submission document (to be forwarded to the supervisor at the other university after submission). If Edinburgh is your first university, you have to prepare a research proposal of a similar nature. However, this is not submitted as a formal assignment piece of coursework — more information about this is available from the IRP web page; specific guidelines regarding proposal structure can be found the IRP Guidelines. If the initial proposal fails to get approval from the co-supervisor, the supervisors will advise you on how to modify the proposal to produce a project description that is acceptable to both sides.
If Edinburgh was your first university, you should contact the Edinburgh EuMI course organiser as soon as possible after you have been assigned a project/thesis in Aachen or Trento in your second year of study, so that a suitable additional supervisor from Edinburgh can be identified (you may of course want to make contacts with potentially relevant Edinburgh people before you go abroad). The thesis is worth 30 ECTS. The ECTS total given below for individual curricula does not include the thesis or credit for courses that count toward the thesis (in Trento the 30 ECTS are composed of 18 ECTS for the thesis, 6 ECTS for a specialist thesis-related course and 6 ECTS for a thesis-related "internship" course).
If Edinburgh is your second university, you will start the project in the same way as every Edinburgh MSc student (taking the MSc Dissertation (DISS) course) in terms of topic choice, assigning supervisors, etc. Once every student is assigned a project topic, the course organiser will help in finding an appropriate additional supervisor at the first university. You will complete work on the project while in Edinburgh and submit it at the end of the second year, where the normal Edinburgh submission deadline — usually at the end of August — applies.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In Trento and Aachen, the overall duration for completion of the thesis is six rather than three months, and it is often the case that projects take longer than this in practice. It is important to complete the project within the overall two-year period given that exceeding two years of study can only be allowed by special permission.
A total of 90 ECTS is required for an Edinburgh MSc. 50 ECTS are gained through coursework in Edinburgh, with a further 30 ECTS obtained for the project & dissertation (regardless of the first/second university combination). Consequently, the remaining 10 ECTS have to be recognised from courses completed at Trento/Aachen.
For this, a weighted average of all "eligible courses" from Aachen is given credit for in Edinburgh worth 10 ECTS, where eligible courses meet all three of the following conditions: (i) the courses have been actually taken in Trento or Aachen; (ii) no equivalent courses (see below) were taken in Edinburgh; and (ii) the courses are not language, culture, "lab" or "seminar" courses.
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