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BEng is a 3½-year programme which includes a six-month internship in a Danish or an international company. Please note that all DTU’s BEng programmes are taught exclusively in Danish.
As the programme is taught in Danish all applicants that apply on the basis of an international upper secondary exam have to pass “Studieprøven i dansk” or “dansk A”. This requirement does not apply to applicants from the Nordic countries. Please click on the following for more information (in Danish):
Information about admission requirements for international students
Following the merger in 2013 with Copenhagen University College of Engineering (IHK), DTU is now the largest BEng provider in Denmark. A consequence of the merger is that our BEng students are taught at two campusses.
A business-oriented programme
Industry and application-oriented, interdisciplinary and innovate—those are the keywords for DTU’s BEng programmes.
Based on the needs of the business sector, the programmes have a research-oriented as well as a practice-oriented approach. This ensures that the students obtain a competitive education, and that businesses will be able to hire engineers possessing up-to-date qualifications.
During the first two years, students follow a set syllabus where they learn to work with all problem-solving phases—from defining the idea for a product, through its production to holding the final product in your hands. Later, students immerse themselves in their particular field of interest by choosing from among DTU’s portfolio of exciting electives.
CDIO
In order to meet the requirements of industry, DTU has chosen to enrol all its Beng students in a CDIO programme.
CDIO takes the real life of the professional engineer as its starting point, with the C-D-I-O acronym standing for the problem-solving phases which an engineer typically encounters: Conceive – Design – Implement – Operate.
By doing so, DTU offers its students a programme which reflects the real world, where application-oriented elements are continuously incorporated in the teaching and where the individual courses are linked to multidisciplinary projects, ensuring a cohesive programme.
During the first two years BEng students follow a set syllabus. Later students choose from DTU’s wide range of elective courses to design the education that matches each individual student’swishes and goals
Innovation Pilot course
At DTU, we want everyone taking a BEng degree to train competences in innovation and learn to take an interdisciplinary approach—which is why the 13-week Innovation Pilot course is mandatory on all study programmes during the fifth and sixth semesters of the BEng programme.
Internship
Each BEng programme includes a six-month internship in a company within a chosen field, where students work on a specific project.
From BEng to MSc
Graduates can join the workforce immediately upon graduation and go on to have successful careers as engineers. However, if graduates want to continue their studies they can continue on a master’s programme if they meet the necessary academic requirements for admission.
BSc Eng programmes
The BSc programme is a research-based undergraduate engineering programme that qualifies the student for a MSc programme.
BSc Eng programmes at DTU
The University offers a wide range of BSc Eng programmes, but only one, BSc in General Engineering, is taught in English and available to international students.
BSc in General Engineering
Other BSc Eng programmes (taught in Danish)
Structure of the programme
The BSc Eng programme is composed of four basic blocks of courses. During the programme, students must pass courses within each of these four blocks, corresponding to 180 ECTS credits points, 45 from each course block.
Structure of the BSc programmes
(Bachelor of Science in Engineering = 180 ECTS credit points, 45 points from each course block)
Basic natural science courses
Complex technological problems cannot be solved without knowing about the basic natural science disciplines mathematics, physics and chemistry. This course block provides an insight into these disciplines—and always in a relevant technological context.
Technological specialization
All BSc Eng programmes include a number of courses that are specific to the particular programme. The technological specialization courses give students a clear picture of what, for example, Biomedical Engineering or IT, Communication Technology is all about, and how this knowledge can be applied in society.
Projects and professional skills courses
Bachelor’s students at DTU also have a number of basic courses within the engineer’s sphere of activity. From the onset, students are introduced to some of the tasks that they will be involved with later on.
Students also learn to use a range of relevant IT tools. Half-way through, students undertake their first big project, the specialist project, which is an exercise in itself in how to prepare a project and engage in teamwork. At the same time, students take a course in science theory, before the BSc Eng concludes with a bachelor project.
Electives
Students have every opportunity to shape their own unique academic profile as a BSc Eng student at DTU. In the block of electives, students choose between several hundred different courses from DTU’s complete course catalogue , enabling them to steer their BSc degree in exactly the direction they want and in so doing increase the number of options open to them when choosing an MSc Eng programme.
Flexible structure of the bachelor’s programme
DTU’s BSc Eng study programme is designed to give students considerable freedom of choice throughout their studies. As the diagram shows, students actually decide the content of one quarter of their programme. By choosing between several hundred courses from DTU’s extensive course offering, you can practically custom-make your own education.
On the majority of bachelor study lines, different proposals for study programmes have been drawn up which can provide a useful source of inspiration.
Read more about the structure of the study lines by selecting the relevant BSc programme in the menue on the left hand side of your screen.
Being a BSc Eng graduate gives you freedom and mobility
Once students hold a BSc Eng in technical science, they are qualified to start on a MSc Eng programme at DTU. However, with a bachelor’s degree from DTU, graduates can also apply to do an MSc at another university.
Computer Science And Engineering Dtu
Description
The MSc programme in Computer Science and Engineering focuses on the design and use of computing components—both software and hardware—to solve technical problems efficiently and competitively.
Modern society infrastructure is based on information technology. IT plays an essential role in our daily lives, and businesses are dependent on computers and communications equipment.
DTU has a strong and growing IT environment with competencies in areas such as safe and secure systems, system integration, distributed and embedded systems, networks, software engineering, algorithms and logic, system-on-chip, and digital systems. As a student on the programme, you will form part of this exciting environment.
Study programme focus
The Computer Science and Engineering programme is concentrated on the design and use of computing components—both software and hardware—to ensure our students become capable of solving technical problems efficiently and competitively.
Focus is on understanding and using the right abstractions for advanced IT solutions which typically include both existing and future components. Computer Science and Engineering thus covers a wide range of courses in software development, safe and secure IT systems, algorithms and logic, and knowledge-based systems, and distributed and embedded systems.
Combine work with studies
This study programme is also available as an Industry study programme where you can combine work and study over a 4-year period. Special rules apply.
Industry MSc Eng programmes
Specializations
You can choose to specialize in one of the six study lines:
Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms
Computer Security
Digital Systems
Embedded and Distributed Systems
Safe and Secure by Design
Software Engineering
You should be aware, however, that your choice of courses in your individual study plan offers a high degree of flexibility, and it is not mandatory to follow a study line. Therefore, you have every opportunity to design your own study programme and career by choosing from the wide range of courses offered at DTU.
Read more about the structure of the MSc programmes at DTU.
Career
With an MSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering, you will be able to model, analyse, design, implement, and validate complex IT systems based on theoretically and technologically well-founded methods, tools, and techniques.
Read more about your future career under the ‘Career’ tab.
Career
Computer Science and Engineering graduates from DTU are particularly attractive to both Danish and international companies and organizations.
Typical fields of work/career opportunities
Our graduates are highly qualified engineers capable of developing and producing complex IT systems with integrated hardware and/or software components based on theoretically and technologically well-founded methods, tools, and techniques.
Therefore, Computer Science and Engineering graduates typically find jobs in a wide range of Danish and international companies involved in IT, electronics, and communication.
Pursue a PhD
Once you have an MSc in Engineering, you might get the opportunity to continue your studies and apply for admission to the three-year PhD programme, which at DTU is a research-based programme ranking among the best in the world. You can do either a regular PhD or an industrial PhD, the latter with concurrent employment in a company.
As a PhD student, you will be part of a research group and have to carry out an independent scientific project.
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