Bachelor in Informatics

Bachelor in Informatics is one of 3 English-taught Computer Science programmes at bachelor’s level in the register, offered by 3 institutions. 3 of them list an annual fee for students from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland; this programme lists EUR 727 a year.

Informatics at IMC Krems is a full-time bachelor degree taught in English. It runs six semesters and 180 ECTS, and you leave with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSc). The programme sits in the science and technology field at a university of applied sciences in Krems an der Donau.

What you study

The first four semesters build the basics of applied informatics. Lectures in theoretical informatics cover information processing, statistical methods and techniques. You apply that in practical and technical informatics courses, including projects where you develop working solutions.

Software engineering gets a strong emphasis. Using programming tools and methods, you develop software systems. Data science is the other key area: how data from various sources is made available and analysed to answer specific questions, plus visualisation methods you can put to use in business and science. Legal requirements around IT and IT security run through the curriculum, and you discuss the impact of data generation and use on individuals and society from ethical perspectives.

Projects start in semester one: a web project, a software project in semesters two and three, and the data science capstone project in semester four. Later courses include machine learning, data visualisation and presentation skills, computer vision and generative AI, and regulatory and compliance.

How the programme is organised

The programme has a strong focus on Data Science, with two specialist electives in semester five: Business Informatics or Bioinformatics. In Business Informatics you work with advanced data analysis methods in business contexts, clean and transform organisational data, and read business intelligence dashboards, process models and market data. In Bioinformatics you analyse biological and medical imaging data and work through a practical bioinformatics project.

Semester six is the Practical Training Semester: a compulsory 14-week internship plus your bachelor thesis, seminar and exam. You choose the placement, at a company, another organisation, or an educational or research institution, in Austria or abroad. More than half of students use it to gain experience abroad. The IMC Career Center team and your lecturers help you find a placement.

Teaching leans on teamwork and practical application. IT development often uses agile methods, so you learn to complete tasks and find new ways of storing, sharing and exploiting data as part of a team. You can also use the Founders Lab alongside your studies for start-up ideas.

Who it suits

This is for people interested in technology who want a creative role in shaping how we live and work. The foundational training is industry-independent, so it opens doors to different organisations and sectors and qualifies you for a master's programme. If you want to specialise early in business data or bioinformatics, the electives let you do that without narrowing the whole degree.

Admission, language and next steps

To qualify for a university of applied sciences bachelor programme you need an Austrian school-leaving certificate or an equivalent. The programme is taught in English, which also prepares you for workplaces where English is used internally and with partners and customers. There is no central application portal: you apply directly to IMC Krems, and the programme page gives the application period and the date for non-EU nationals. Check the page for the current deadlines and any entrance procedure. Fees are set by the institution and shown on its page.

With its English-language bachelor’s programme in Informatics IMC Krems addresses women and men who are interested in technology-related fields and want to creatively help shape future areas of work and life. The bachelor's programme in Informatics focuses on data science and offers an application-oriented specialisation in the electives "Business Process and Enterprise Technologies" and "Bio Informatics".

There is no central application portal in Austria: you apply to the institution, here IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences. Universities of applied sciences set their own application periods and admission procedures, so read them on the programme page. Entrance examination, as the register states it: Admission procedure. Entry requirements and language tests are set by the institution, so start from the official programme page. Our guides cover tuition fees, the student residence permit and housing.