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Computational Biomedicine

Master

What does the programme lead to?

With a Master's degree in Computational Biomedicine from SDU, you will be attractive to the job market, both in Denmark and internationally. Your knowledge and skills will prepare you especially for jobs in the healthcare sector.

During your course of study, you will gain expert knowledge within the bioinformatics field. This expert knowledge – combined with competencies in programming, modelling, application of software, data analytical methods, statistics and algorithms – will make you a coveted employee. Graduates with a Master's degree in Computational biomedicine have an unemployment rate of only 1 %.

With a Master's degree in Computational Biomedicine, you can be employed in hospitals and use your knowledge in biomedical and clinical areas and work with analyses of especially very large data sets. You can also get jobs in pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

The education gives you a professionally broad profile, which means that you can also apply for jobs where you use the computer science skills you acquire. For example, you could be employed as a software engineer in the IT and robotics industry.

Some graduates choose to work in the banking or finance sectors, which also demands graduates with skills in programming and modelling.

16 % of the graduates from Computational Biomedicine at SDU work abroad.

Once you have a Master's degree, you can choose to continue your career at the university with a PhD degree. A PhD gives you the competence to do research and teach at the university.

Roughly one third of the graduates from Computational Biomedicine choose to study for a PhD.

Examples of job titles and places of employment

Graduates from Computational Biomedicine are employed in several different industries and have very different job titles. Below you can see job titles and places of employment for a selection of our latest graduates:

  • Bioinformatician at Rigshospitalet
  • Software engineer at Mobile Industrial Robots
  • Data manager at Hvidovre Hospital
  • Consultant at Rambøll
  • PhD fellow at the  Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany
  • Research assistant at Aarhus University Hospital
  • Data manager, at the Regions' Clinical Quality Development Program
  • Research assistant at the Institute of Biological Psychiatry (IBP), Mental Health Services, Sct. His
  • Graduate - Digital Relation at Jyske Bank
  • PhD fellow at SDU
  • Research scientist at Gubra
  • Senior data scientist at Novo Nordisk
  • Researcher at the Bioinformatics Research Group, FH OÖ - Hagenberg
  • Research assistant at EBB - Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography
  • Senior data scientist at PrecisionLife, England
  • Bioinformatics engineer at SMEDIX, Romania
  • Process supporter at Novo Nordisk
  • Clinical data manager at NBCD A/S       

Degree qualifications

What exactly makes you particularly attractive in the job market if you take a Master's degree in Computational Biomedicine? To a potential future employer, you are your competences. Therefore, we here give you an overview of the competences that the programme gives you:

  • With a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Science at SDU, you will be able to:

    • independently apply the theories and methods of one or more subject areas as well as engage with subject matters and methods within the field of research of said subject area
    • plan and conduct scientific projects at a high academic level
    • explain hypotheses from a qualified theoretical background and be critical towards your own and others’ research results and scientific model
    •  initiate and carry out academic and biological related interdisciplinary collaboration and take responsibility for your  own academic development and specialisations
    • communicate research-based knowledge and discuss professional and scientific problems with both peers and non-specialists

  • As a graduate with a Master's degree in Computational biomedicine, you will have knowledge of:

    • theories and experimental methods based on leading international research within the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology
    • their uses within the biomedical and clinical areas, including analyses of Big Data
    • biochemistry and molecular biology, programming, data analysis methods, statistics and algorithms
    • expert knowledge within a defined area of bioinformatics

    You will be able to:

    • understand and scientifically reflect upon bioinformatics knowledge
    • identify scientific problems
    • master advanced models and methods within bioinformatics and computational biomedicine, including state-of-the-art
    • present current knowledge on a number of important bioinformatics and biostatistics problems and discuss the limits of current knowledge
    • put forward qualified hypotheses and critically evaluate the results and models obtained from self and others
    • develop new variants of known method  if the problem requires it
    • plan and execute scientific projects at the highest level, including managing work and development situations which are complex, unpredictable and require novel solutions
    • facilitate cooperation and communication between IT professionals, biochemists and molecular biologists and other professionals within medicine and healthcare

    Because of the international aspect of the programme, you will gain the skills to maintain professional and personal relations in foreign settings and understand that the approach to the key topics and methods of the field remains the same across international borders.

Facts about the programme

Location

Odense

Study start

September

Tuition language

English

Tuition fee for non EU/EEA students

EUR 6640 per semester (30 ECTS)

Student Housing

Guaranteed student housing for all internationals

Admission

Apply for admission

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Do you need to know how to apply for a Master's degree programme? Are you in doubt about which programme to choose? Whatever questions you have, we are ready to give you answers and personal guidance.

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