USA: MS / PhD Studies in Information Systems at UC Irvine

MS / PhD Studies in Information Systems at UC Irvine, USA

The faculty of the Information Systems Group (ISG) at UC Irvine is looking for a handful of excellent prospective students who are seeking an exciting, active place to study and do research on databases and information systems starting in the Fall of 2009. Several large projects are underway and several new ones are just beginning and will provide excellent opportunities for incoming students to “get in on the ground floor” of interesting new research initiatives.

ISG is a part of the CS Department within the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine, an environment that offers a number of unique advantages and opportunities. Being one of just a handful of such schools across the country, ICS offers a broad, stimulating intellectual environment for graduate studies. ICS is comprised of three departments -Computer Science, Informatics, and Statistics- covering all traditional computer science areas as well as related areas such as software engineering, human-computer interaction and usability, collaboration technologies, and statistical machine learning and data mining and analysis.

UC Irvine itself, in the words of our current chancellor, “combines the strengths of a major research university with the bounty of an incomparable Southern California location.” Thus, in addition to a stimulating research and educational environment, graduate study in ISG at UC Irvine offers attractive off-hours opportunities. Our location in Orange County (http://www.visitorangecounty.net) offers easy access to a wide variety of outdoor and indoor entertainment and sporting activities.

More information about graduate study in CS at UC Irvine can be found on the UCI CS graduate studies page (http://www.ics.uci.edu/computerscience/grad).

The application period is open now and applications will be accepted through January 15, 2009. More specifics about ISG, its faculty, and its projects can be found on our new ISG web site (http://isg.ics.uci.edu).

Closing date: January 15, 2009

Europe: Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies, Grants for Students and Visiting Scholars

Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies, Grants for Students and Visiting Scholars, Europe

The University of Münster, Germany, University Jaume I, Spain, and New University of Lisbon, Portugal, provide a new Masters Program in Geospatial Technologies. The English-taught Masters program has been approved in the educational program of excellence of the European Union ERASMUS MUNDUS. The program targets international applicants from NON-EU countries and will provide:


15-20 grants for non-EU students (35.600, for the entire Masters program of 18 months)
3-4 grants for non-EU visiting researchers/scholars (13.000, for four months of teaching and research)
Application deadline: January 15, 2009.

Students - the Masters program addresses holders of Bachelor degrees in APPLICATION AREAS of Geographic Information, such as Geography, Environmental Planning, Regional Planning, Transportation/Logistics, Agriculture, Forestry, Retailing/Marketing , etc., and/or

Researchers (visiting scholars) with high-level academic achievements in the field of Geographic Information. The additional know-how and experience in Geospatial Technologies qualifies for a professional career in the following domains:

Private sector: GI applications and consulting in the domains of regional planning, landscape planning, financial services industry, energy providing industry, transportation, agriculture and forestry, and retailing/marketing.

Research: Applied sciences at universities and other research institutions

Public sector: GI applications and consulting in local and regional adminstrations, especially in cadastre and different types of planning (e.g., regional, traffic, ecology).

For further information, please see http://geotech.uni-muenster.de