Computer Science

Computer science studies at a interdisciplinary technical university particularly accommodate this discipline's special character. There are wide variety of research fields in computer science at RWTH Aachen. However the program also ensures a high degree of interdisciplinary collaboration with the natural and engineering sciences and linguistics and communication studies.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers," said Thomas John Watson apparently in 1943 as chairman of the board at IBM. We know better now! A life without fast data processing, internet, apps, email, video on demands, and intelligent house technology is practically unthinkable.

As a science of analysis, conception, and the implementatin of information processing systems, computer science has become indispensable. With fundamental concepts such as architecture, algorithm, information, complexity, and efficiency, the statistical structure and dynamic behavior of such systems can be described and investigated. Computer science focuses on both the qualitative and quantitative classification of problems and algorithms and the solution of concrete practial problems.

In this fields between mathematics and engineering computer science has developed into a discipline with its own scientific methods.

Computer science studies at a interdisciplinary technical university particularly accommodate this discipline's special character. There are wide variety of research fields in computer science at RWTH Aachen. However the program also ensures a high degree of interdisciplinary collaboration with the natural and engineering sciences and linguistics and communication studies.

In order to learn the necessary communication with users, students begin an application subject in the third semester (or later). Students can principally combine classes from one or several subjects outside of computer science. Classes from the following subjects are part of the Catalogue of Application Subjects, among others: business administration, mathematics, electrical engineering, biology, mechanical engineering, medicine, philosophy, physics, chemistry, and psychology.

Starting in the third semester the curriculum offers an elective module, which offers students their first opportunity for creating a focus. They can flexibly choose and combine individual modules from theoretical computer science, software and communication, data and information management, and applied computer science. These modules are often offered in English.