Informatique études

Organized over one year, this Master's degree enables you to acquire the skills you need to master the IT challenges facing companies, and to analyze and develop new information systems. It is organized according to a timetable adapted to professional life.

Your objectives

  • Learn to steer, design and develop innovative projects with high added value for companies, which are conducive to progress for society.
  • Know and understand the organizational environment in which applications operate, in particular the relationships between IT, the individual, business and society.
  • Master information and communication technologies: programming, databases, operating systems and networks, artificial intelligence, security, information systems, etc.
  • Become the architect of major IT applications: in the medical field, in banking and finance, in telecommunications, for government, in research and development, for the scientific sector.

Teaching methods

Collaborative work to foster autonomy and critical thinking

At Master's level, theSoftware Engineering Laboratory is part of a project-based pedagogy. It gives you the opportunity to work in a team and observe, almost in the field, the necessary and difficult synergy of individual autonomies to bring a collective project to fruition. A team of assistants accompanies you in your work.

A e-learning site ensures the distribution of materials (transparencies, syllabi, reference articles, exercises...), and facilitates exchanges between all those involved (students, teachers...): forum, wiki, group communication...

The cellule interfacultaire d'appui pédagogique is at your disposal, all year round, should you require methodological assistance. Individual interviews can be arranged in person or remotely with an advisor.

Schedule

Courses are held in Namur, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6pm to 9pm, and on Saturdays from 9am to 1pm. Some courses are nevertheless organized on Wednesdays from 6pm to 9pm (particularly for the final year of the bachelor's degree) and on Saturdays from 2pm to 5pm.

Paid educational leave (CEP)

Our training courses benefit from the three regions' paid educational leave. More info on the regional websites: Bruxelles Économie et Emploi; Service Public de Wallonie and Vlaams opleidingsverlof (VOV).

All the info on educational leave

Lighter program

For various reasons, including professional ones, students can apply before October 31 for a reduction in their year of study.

After the January exams, 1st bachelor students can request a reduction in their second-quarter program. This modified program is drawn up in consultation with the jury and may include specific remedial activities.

Other Masters in Computer Science

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      IHDCM033 Software Architecture Engineering: technologies and methods 30h th.
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      IHDCM050 Master thesis
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      IHDCM035 Computer security 3 30h th.
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    Les métiers des informaticiens

    IT professions

    Sharing a story, answering a survey, regulating the temperature in your home, monitoring a patient's vital parameters, getting an airplane off the ground, managing traffic lights, wrapping up a newspaper... almost everything today involves IT! Increasingly systematic digitization goes hand in hand with a constant demand for several thousand university-level computer scientists on the job market.

    A degree recognized beyond our borders

    As computer scientists, you can choose to work in Belgium, possibly on temporary assignments abroad, or embrace an international career.

    A high-quality, varied and creative profession

    According to a Randstad study that takes into account various criteria such as salary, work-life balance, working environment, job diversity and intellectual challenge, the IT profession is the 7th most attractive profession in Belgium. It is also ranked as the 5th best-paid profession upon graduation.

    Rich and diverse career prospects

    Thanks to a multidisciplinary university education that teaches you to rapidly assimilate new knowledge, your career path can be punctuated by multiple reorientations to best follow your personal evolution, desires and ambitions.

    At first, I was tempted by all kinds of careers: fighter pilot, engineer, architect, truck driver, fireman... By chance, I ended up studying computer science at the University of Namur. Today, I can say that I have touched (and still touch) many trades. I'm sure I've been able to fit in like a chameleon wherever I've gone, thanks to the way the subjects were taught to me: favoring a well-shaped head over a full one. Frankly, in a career spanning more than 20 years, I'm still discovering new things every day, and I really enjoy it.

    Pierre, Deputy IT Director - Cliniques Universitaires UCL Saint-Luc

    Choose your best profile...

    • Company IT specialists: employed within a company, you carry out various internal projects and thus participate fully in its smooth running.
    • Freelancers: you're your own boss and manage your own customers. This status gives you greater freedom and flexibility.
    • Consultants: employed by a consulting firm or self-employed, you carry out assignments (from 1 month to 2 years) in different companies to bring your expertise to projects.

    Whatever your profile, you'll be working on a variety of projects, in contact with numerous collaborators, in a stimulating, constantly evolving technological environment.

    Grow your career, one of those offering the most professional flexibility. It allows you to easily change not only your profile, but also your job.

    • Analyst-developer
    • Business analyst
    • Software engineer
    • Quality engineer
    • Security expert Data scientist
    • ICT architect(Information and Communication Technology)
    • Project manager
    • University researcher

    Whatever your starting position, after a few years, you'll move on to project management and management positions, where you'll be involved in the company's strategic decisions. But this isn't a golden rule, as many original alumni careers testify.

    IT is the backbone of organizations today. All too often, computer science is wrongly summed up as a purely technological discipline. Namur's Faculty of Informatics has always preferred to give its students a much broader vision, with an emphasis on human beings, organizations, business economics and communication. A winning combination for our students! All these tools are extremely useful in my job. I'm convinced that tomorrow, more than ever, our society will need IT professionals like these

    Yves, Senior Standards Architect - SWIFT

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