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Browse programs across undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, certificates, and continuing education. Each program page includes outcomes, curriculum structure, teaching format, projects, admissions requirements, tuition, and FAQ.

Programs
18
Schools & units
8
Learning modes
3
How to filter
Degree level
  • BSc
  • BA
  • MSc
  • MA
  • PhD
  • Certificate
  • Continuing Education

Start with your goal (career change / depth / research), then pick field and mode.

Mode
  • On-campus
  • Hybrid
  • Low-Residency

On-campus provides full access to facilities; Hybrid blends campus and structured off-campus components; Low-residency concentrates studio weeks and defenses.

Field
  • Arts & Humanities
  • Business
  • Computer Science
  • Design
  • Education
  • Health
  • Law & Policy
  • Social Sciences
  • Sustainability

Fields are not walls. Cross-field electives are encouraged—but core methods must be strong.

Featured programs
BSc · On-campus
BSc Computer Science

Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and systems

MSc · Hybrid
MSc Human-Centered AI

ML engineering paired with ethics, policy, and product design

MSc · Low-Residency
MSc Interaction Design (Editorial UI)

Typography-led interface design

Academic experience

How learning works here

Courses are built around repeatable practice: students keep lab logs, iterate on drafts, and defend decisions. Many assignments are designed to become portfolio artifacts.

  • Feedback cycles: short, frequent revisions instead of high-stakes surprises.
  • Methods-first: we teach protocols and evaluation, not just tools.
  • Research adjacency: motivated students can upgrade course work into lab contributions.

If you’re deciding between programs, look for alignment in pacing, mode, and the kind of work you want to ship.

Not sure yet? Attend an open day, audit a class session, and bring a past project to discuss with faculty.
Sample courses
AI310 · Undergraduate
Machine Learning Foundations

Covers supervised learning end-to-end: baselines, feature engineering, train/validation discipline, and error analysis. Students practice building reproducible evaluation reports, spotting leakage/overfitting, and communicating results with clear metrics and caveats.

AI520 · Graduate
Responsible ML Systems

Design and operate responsible ML services: evaluation protocols, bias and slice checks, monitoring/alerts, rollback strategies, and incident-style postmortems. Emphasis on documentation, governance, and shipping models that remain reliable under drift.

AI610 · Graduate
LLM Systems & Evaluation

Build production-grade LLM applications beyond prompting: retrieval and grounding, safety and policy checks, tool use, and systematic evaluation harnesses. Students implement test suites for quality, hallucination risk, and regression, then iterate on architecture with measured evidence.

CS101 · Undergraduate
Introduction to Programming

An introduction to programming through small, complete systems: variables, control flow, functions, and working with files. Strong emphasis on readable code, incremental testing, debugging via tracing, and using version control to iterate with feedback.

CS120 · Undergraduate
Computational Thinking for Everyone

Learn computational thinking as a transferable method: decomposition, abstraction, representation, and systematic debugging. Students solve small problems with simple programs and visual reasoning, practicing how to explain solutions and verify them with tests and examples.

CS210 · Undergraduate
Data Structures & Complexity

Study core data structures and complexity with hands-on implementation: stacks, queues, trees, hash tables, and graphs. Focus on choosing the right structure, analyzing time/space tradeoffs, and writing performance-aware code with clear invariants.

All programs
BSc
3 programs
School of Computational Arts & Sciences · On-campus
BSc Computer Science

Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and systems · Campus-based seminars and supervised labs

School of Sustainability & Built Futures · Hybrid
BSc Sustainable Systems

Systems thinking for climate and cities · Data literacy for sustainability decisions

School of Business & Public Leadership · On-campus
BSc Data & Decision Science

Statistics and decision-making in real contexts · Transparent models and communication

BA
3 programs
School of Liberal Studies · On-campus
BA European Studies (Culture, Policy & Languages)

European institutions, civic history, and contemporary debates · Policy writing studios and interview-based research

School of Liberal Studies · On-campus
BA Digital Culture & Media

Media theory paired with platform analysis · Digital methods (archives, interviews, data-driven storytelling)

School of Liberal Studies · On-campus
BA Philosophy & Public Ethics

Close reading seminars with small cohorts · Writing-intensive curriculum with feedback cycles

MSc
6 programs
School of Computational Arts & Sciences · Hybrid
MSc Human-Centered AI

ML engineering paired with ethics, policy, and product design · Evaluation-first approach (bias, robustness, monitoring)

School of Design · Low-Residency
MSc Interaction Design (Editorial UI)

Typography-led interface design · Design systems and component thinking

School of Education · On-campus
MSc Learning Sciences & Pedagogy

Evidence-based teaching for diverse cohorts · Learning analytics with a human lens

School of Computational Arts & Sciences · On-campus
MSc Cybersecurity & Trust Engineering

Security as engineering, not theatre · Applied cryptography and secure systems

School of Sustainability & Built Futures · Hybrid
MSc Sustainable Urbanism

Urban systems and climate adaptation · Studio charrette with real city constraints

School of Health & Human Sciences · Hybrid
MSc Health Informatics

Data governance, privacy, and clinical workflows · Interoperability and quality improvement

MA
2 programs
School of Business & Public Leadership · On-campus
MA Public Policy & Narrative

Policy analysis paired with narrative and rhetoric · Studio briefs with stakeholder feedback

School of Liberal Studies · Low-Residency
MA Writing & Editorial Design

Craft seminars paired with an editorial studio · Typography foundations for writers and editors

PhD
1 programs
Graduate School · Hybrid
PhD Societal Computing

Co-mentorship across disciplines · Methods spine (qualitative and computational)

Certificate
2 programs
School of Liberal Studies · On-campus
Certificate in Academic Writing & Research Methods

Research questions, sources, and argument structure · Citation practice and academic integrity

School of Business & Public Leadership · On-campus
Certificate in Digital Product Leadership

A structured product case portfolio · Cross-functional communication training

Continuing Education
1 programs
School of Liberal Studies · On-campus
Continuing Education: European Writing Lab

Weekly peer workshop with editor feedback · Learn revision as a deliberate craft