Information Networks

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Foreign:$ 16.2 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 25, 2025
201–250 place StudyQA ranking:3942 Duration:2 years

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Master’s Programme in Information Networks is a trans-disciplinary study programme in engineering building on information and communication technology (ICT) and digital media. It combines the fields of social sciences, advanced digital technologies and business.

The programme provides the students with a comprehensive understanding on the interaction between human beings and digital technologies on individual, group, organizational and societal levels. You will learn about the joint development of digital technologies and business in a novel human-centered, collaborative and creative manner.

Studies in Master’s Programme in Information Networks combine courses in computer science, media technology, industrial management and business with a human-centered approach. The programme encourages the students to construct their personal study plan in a multi-disciplinary way by offering well-structured study entities of the programme’s core substance areas. You can focus on one substance area, or choose to build a broader multidisciplinary combination of competences. The four focus areas, tracks, in the Information Networks major are: ICT in BusinessKnowledge and Business NetworksMedia, and User-Centered Design.

Master of Science (Technology), 120 ECTS, degree structure consists of a major (either long or compact), a Master’s thesis, and elective studies. A compact major is always supplemented with a minor.

Recent Master’s thesis topics of Information Networks students e.g. Differences between observations and interviews in creating use cases for usability inspection; User research in commercialization – why and how; Persona creation based on secondary data: a study on perceived reliability in UX design; Customer value creation and value capture in digitally enhanced industrial services; Mobile interface design for evoking motivation: design implications from self-determination theory and motivational interviewing; and The role of user-centred design in startup-companies’ business and product development.

 

Applicants with an appropriate degree from a university or a university of applied sciences may apply directly to a master’s programme in the field of science and technology at Aalto University. Admissions are organized once a year and applications are accepted only during the application period.

Applicants are eligible to apply for a master-level studies in the field of science and technology if they have completed:

  • A 3–4 year bachelor’s degree from a university or the equivalent education. The degree must entitle the graduate to apply for university-level master’s degree studies in the country in question.
  • A polytechnic degree (Finnish university of applied sciences, ammattikorkeakoulu).
  • A polytechnic degree in an EU country if the degree entitles the graduate to apply for university-level master’s degree studies in the country in question.

The university has to fulfill the following criteria:

  • The university must be an official and recognized part of the national education system.
  • The university has to be found on an official list or in an international handbook that is completed by some international organization (e.g. UNESCO).
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