Master in Computational Biomedicine

Master in Computational Biomedicine is one of 4 English-taught Biomedical Science programmes at Master's Degree level in the register, offered by 2 institutions. 4 of them list an annual fee for students from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland, from EUR 8,700 to EUR 17,300; this programme lists EUR 17,300 a year. 4 are recorded as free for EU, EEA and Swiss students.

Computational Biomedicine at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense is a two-year master's taught in English. It sits where computer science meets the life sciences: you learn to handle the large molecular datasets that hospitals and research labs now produce, and to build the software and models that make sense of them.

What you study

The programme covers the integration and application of computational methods in the life sciences. That means molecular biology, structural biology, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics. You work with computational biology and bioinformatics methods for analysing next-generation molecular datasets, the kind gathered on a growing scale in hospitals around the world. The aim is to make you a biomedical data analyst, or a developer of biomedical computer science solutions, so you can contribute to computer-assisted medicine.

In the first year you combine compulsory and elective courses with a research period. You choose one of two tracks:

• Systems Biology: large-scale omics datasets, biological networks and advanced modelling.
• Bioinformatics: sequence analysis, structure and function studies of biomolecules, translational medicine and epidemiology.

Admission, language and next steps

To be admitted you need a bachelor's degree in natural science, or another relevant degree built on at least three years of higher education after high school level. The Study Board assesses each applicant individually, so your background is weighed rather than matched against a fixed list. You may also need to document English at a specified level; check the university's language requirements.

Apply directly to the University of Southern Denmark with all relevant documentation. If you are unsure whether your foreign certificate meets the general entry requirements, contact the university. The Danish Agency for Higher Education lists commonly recognised exams and diplomas, and its guide to diploma recognition explains how foreign qualifications are assessed.

Students from the EU/EEA and Switzerland study free of charge. Other students pay a tuition fee set by the institution. SDU offers 75 scholarships a year, and details are on its tuition and scholarship pages.

Master’s applications go straight to University of Southern Denmark, not through optagelse.dk, and the institution sets its own deadline. Entry requirements and language tests are set by the institution, so start from the official programme page. Our guides cover tuition fees, residence permits and housing.