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The programme has a duration of two years and starts each year in September. Students are free to schedule the sequence of their courses. For graduation, a total number of 120 credit points (EC) is required. It is recommended that 60 EC are taken each year, and that all compulsory courses are completed in the first year.

The individual study programme consists of the following parts:

• - A common core worth 32 EC.
• - Specialisation courses worth at least 28 EC. At least 18 EC need to be taken from the list of specialisation courses. The remaining 10 EC can be chosen from other master programmes offered by EEMCS. There are three recommended specialisation profiles: Embedded Systems, General Purpose and High Performance Systems, and Distributed Systems and Networks.
• - A free elective space worth 15 EC that the student must spend on study units like a research task, an international exchange programme, an internship, an interfaculty specialisation profile or courses offered by other universities or by the Delft University of Technology; in the latter case, preferably courses from another department, or social studies courses. Alternatively, this space may be used for homologation courses. These are courses that students can take to acquire knowledge missing from their previous BSc degree programme.
• - A thesis project worth 45 EC.

The MSc programme is organised by the following laboratories:

• - Circuits and Systems
• - Computer Engineering
• - Parallel and Distributed Systems
• - Software Engineering (SE)
• - Network Architectures and Services (NAS)