• Can I actually write a new app for my mobile phone on my own? Maybe one that shows me how my friends are doing at the moment?
• How does Facebook actually work? And how do Internet companies earn their money?
• Why can music services recommend new music so accurately?
• How does encryption work and how can I protect myself with it? My emails, my smartphone, my company? From the competition or from secret services?
• How can robots be taught to see, walk and think?
• How does data actually find its way to me through the Internet? What traces do I leave behind, and which can I prevent?
• What does Google know about me when I search there and store my data there, and what do they do with it?
• When will the self-driving car arrive, and what problems do we still have to solve for it?
• How does a navigation system actually find the shortest route? And how do you manage to fit all the world's road maps into a small chip?

These are all exciting questions that computer scientists are dealing with. They are already creating the future of our information society today.

Many people know the cliché: Computer scientists are male nerds who sit at their computer screens night after night, live off pizza and Coke, have hardly any social contacts, and have neither influence nor take on leadership tasks in the company.

The graduates of our degree course know a different kind of computer science:

• Gathering requirements by interacting with the customers directly,
• Discussions with members of the most diverse fields - from engineers on an oil rig to nursing staff in a retirement home,
• Developing solutions with constant consultation and feedback in the team,
• Continuing education and participation in international communities,
• Regional ties through local user groups,
• Family-compatible jobs for members of virtual teams.

The aim of the Bachelor's degree course in "Applied Computer Science" is to provide a scientifically sound, application-oriented course of study that optimally prepares graduates for a successful professional life in the field of information technology. The degree course in Computer Science is primarily software-oriented. Since computer science is a cross-sectional technology, the courses offered in Computer Science are interdisciplinary. The Bachelor's course enables students to independently and economically implement the concepts and procedures of computer science in the following subject areas:

• Administration of computer systems, operating system and network security, system and network management, parallel processing
• Network reference models, passive and active components, protocols
• Organisation and analysis of large amounts of data, transactions, synchronisation, O/R mapping, persistence frameworks, application servers
• Internet technologies, e-commerce systems, XML technologies, software agents, semantic web, graphical information systems
• Software engineering methods for developing large software systems, software architecture, design patterns, distributed systems, middleware
• Special topics in software engineering such as project management, quality assurance, user interfaces and software ergonomics
• Methods and applications of computer graphics, animation and image processing

What are the prerequisites? You should enjoy brainteasers and puzzles, communicating with other people, dealing with mathematics, a wide range of applications and technical challenges. Favourable prerequisites for successful computer science studies are good written and oral expression, good abstraction skills and, because of the constantly developing subject area, a high willingness to learn.

Entitlement to study in the Bachelor's course in “Applied Computer Science" is proven by the general university entrance qualification, the subject-related university entrance qualification, the entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences, or a previous education recognised by the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs as being of equal value.

Admission is granted according to the local allocation procedure. Separate application deadlines apply to applications with foreign educational certificates.

• All of our professors are not only scientists, but have also worked in companies themselves and know the IT industry.
• Practical projects with companies are integrated into the course.
• We teach not only with lectures, but with many practical exercises every week, e.g. in pairs with the professor at the computer.
• With us you learn to think in algorithms, in models, in concurrent processes, in layers and architectures: Concepts and methods that will last a whole professional life, beyond current trends.
• Only 25 students share one professor.
• Many students work in our research projects on many current topics in computer science.