Systems of Higher Education in an international Comparison: Spain<title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../CSS/2col_leftNav.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="masthead"> <h1 id="siteName"> Systems of Higher Education in an international Comparison: Spain</h1> <h1 id="subTitle">Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia</h1><div id="globalNav"> <a href="../educationalsystem/school.html">Educational System</a> | <a href="../universitylife/living.html"> University Life</a> | <a href="../work/internship.html">Work</a> | Madrid | <a href="../valencia/valencia.html"> Valencia</a>| <a href="../authors.html">Authors</a></div> </div>  <div id="content"> <h2 id="pageName"> Universidad Carlos III de Madrid </h2> <div class="story"> <h3> La Titulación - The Degree </h3> <p> At the UC3M computer science students can usually choose only very little. During the first cycle (the first 3 years) nearly all courses are obligatory. Nevertheless the student can decide what humanity course he is going to study and in this case there is a broad choice - since all students at UC3M have to do this. Another speciality is the need to study at least one English course. Since the English classes in the Spanish school are not very efficient - a result of teaching English classes in Spanish - most Spanish students only speak very little English. Although it might be questionable if a single English course at university can solve this problem, at least the UC3M seems to have recognized this problem.<br /> And with the bilingual second cycle it also offers a much more efficient reaction.</p> <p> Since the Spanish system is oriented more towards practice than towards theory, the general rule at UC3M is that 40 % of the workload should be practical work. This can be done in lab courses or / and projects in a company.</p> <p> Although normally the Spanish system does not have any final project or thesis, the second cycle at UC3M includes a final project that is usually done at a company. Nevertheless it can not be compared with a master or even bachelor thesis at the TU Munich, because the approach is not so scientific but rather more hands-on. </p> <h3> The Second Cycle </h3> <p> In the second cycle the student can either study in English or in Spanish. Within the English cycle most courses are obligatory - again. But this basically depends on the little number of English courses available. If the students continues to study in Spanish - as most students do - he can choose between three different areas of specialization:</p> <h4> <strong>Development of information system in the company<br /> <em>(Desarrollo de sistemas de información en la empresa)</em></strong></h4> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr align="left"> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <div> <div> <h5> First semester</h5> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311355.html">Database Visual Applications</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311356.html">Productivity Tools Computer Development</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311358.html">Production Control Software</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311361.html">Information Engineering</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311364.html">Corporate Information Systems Development</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <div> <div> <h5> Second semester</h5> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311357.html">Component Based Design</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311359.html">Information Technology Business Applications</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311360.html">Advanced database design</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311362.html">Knowledge Management Systems</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311363.html">Integrated Management Systems</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> <strong>Application and distributed system</strong><br /> <em><strong>Aplicaciones y sistemas distribuidos</strong></em></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr align="left"> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <div> <div> <h5> First semester</h5> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311367.html">Secure Electronic Commerce</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311368.html">Information Servers</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311369.html">Development of Distributed Applications</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311371.html">Design and Evaluation of Hypermedia Systems</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311372.html">Real-Time Systems</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <div> <div> <h5> Second semester</h5> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311365.html">Distributed Systems</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311366.html">Distributed Systems Security</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311370.html">Computer-Aided Learning</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311373.html">Information Retrieval and Access</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311374.html">Advanced Programming</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> <strong>Articial Intelligence </strong> <br /> <em><strong>Inteligencia artificia</strong></em></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr align="left"> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <div> <div> <h5> First semester</h5> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311375.html">Biological Computation</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311378.html">Computational Perception</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311379.html">Reasoning with Uncertainty</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311380.html">Artificial Intelligence Tools</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311381.html">Artificial Intelligence in Organizations</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr align="left"> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <div> <div> <h5> Second semester</h5> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311382.html">Artificial Intelligence Applications for Systems Control</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311376.html">Machine Learning</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311377.html">Design Software of Intelligent Autonomous Agents</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311383.html">Robotics</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> <li><a href="http://www3.uc3m.es/reina/Fichas/fichas_2/1311384.html">Modelling and Simulation of Virtual Environments</a> (6 local credits / 5 ECTS credits) </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> 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