Education
The Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering's teaching takes place in the bachelor's programme Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and two master's programmes Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Decision Making.
We also offer an exchange programme for students looking to study abroad.
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Bachelor's programme
A 3-year programme offering a unique combination of computer science, mathematics and artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence
Master's programme
A 2-year programme with a focus simulating human intelligence for a wide variety of applications: from game design to patient diagnosis.
Data Science for Decision Making
Master's programme
A 2-year programme with a focus on extracting valuable information from large datasets for widespread applications such as: optimising supply chains or modelling biological processes.
DKE education news
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Everyone wins: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence students work on business cases
Thursday, February 4, 2021Read moreThe bachelor’s programme in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence now offers the opportunity – in collaboration with Brightlands-based BSSC and BISS – for third-year students to complete a semester project with a company or organization.
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Data Science and Knowledge Engineering bachelor's programme changes name
Tuesday, September 1, 2020Read moreAs of 1 September 2020, the programme is named Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
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First-year bachelor’s students rescue kidnapped professor
Friday, August 28, 2020Read more150 unsuspecting students took part in an alternate reality game last Monday. Within 30 hours of starting their introduction to the bachelor’s programme at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, they collectively defused a bomb and emerged as heroes.
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UM students compete in first international Artificial Intelligence Song Contest
Tuesday, April 14, 2020The first international Artificial Intelligence Song Contest is currently taking place online. Even better – it includes a team of UM students and local musicians.
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"I’m surprised by the recentness of the knowledge that I gained"
Monday, December 16, 2019Marc Pont, alumnus of the master's programme in Data Science for Decision Making, discusses the atmosphere, curriculum and job search.
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Research into Japanese puzzles prompts London adventure for master's student
Tuesday, November 26, 2019A love for Japanese culture snowballed into a London conference trip for Lianne Hufkens, master's student Artificial Intelligence.
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DKE’s Class of 2019: what’s next?
Tuesday, July 16, 2019Following the graduation ceremonies on July 11 and 12, we asked four brand new graduates about their next steps in life. We also asked them to reflect – perhaps for the last time – on their time at DKE.
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FSE students place first in international hackathon
Tuesday, June 4, 2019A group of bachelor’s students of the Maastricht Science Programme (MSP) and Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) won the Eramet challenge at the VivaTechnology Hackathon in Paris during the weekend of 18 May.
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11 DKE students listed in Dutch ‘Top 500 tech talents under 26’
Wednesday, May 8, 2019Technology conference TNW catalogues 500 of the Dutch tech world’s most talented people under the age of 26. This year’s list – the T500 – features three alumni and eight current students of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). Among them is Dirk Bongers, DKE master's student.
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Odd one out: student presents bachelor thesis at esteemed conference
Wednesday, February 20, 2019Philippe Debie is literally going the extra mile to present his bachelor thesis at a renowned international conference in Santiago, Chile.
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The Road to Maastricht
Thursday, January 31, 2019What would you ask someone who, in the words of the organizers, played a major role in the story of science in the last 70 years?
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Five years KE@Work, more A-team than Beauty and the Beast
Monday, January 21, 2019What makes the KE@Work partnership unique, and which philosophy is behind the programme’s collaboration?
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Two silver Reimagine Education Awards for KE@Work
Tuesday, December 4, 2018KE@Work won a silver award in the category Best Employer-University Partnership during the gala ceremony in San Francisco.
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KE@Work shortlisted for 2018 Reimagine Education awards
Thursday, November 15, 2018The honours path for bachelor students of the Data Science and Knowledge Engineering programme, KnowledgeEngineering@Work or KE@Work, is shortlisted for the 2018 Reimagine Education awards. The reputable Reimagine awards seek to reward education innovators from around the globe.
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1 study & 3 jobs
Thursday, September 20, 2018Three Artificial Intelligence alumni talk about their work. Marloes van Eijk is a data scientist/advisor at the Public Prosecution Service, Gijs-Jan Roelofs is a freelance consultant and Inge Lemmens is chief technology officer at PNA Group.
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Data Science for Decision Making best Master's programme in it's category
Wednesday, March 7, 2018The ‘Keuzegids Masters 2018’, released today, ranks DKE's Master programme in Data Science for Decision Making 1st place in the country for the category for Theoretical Master for Computer Science. Due to its high score, it has also received the "topopleiding" seal, which means that it belongs to the best Masters programmes in the Netherlands.
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Innovative Data Science research project wins award
Thursday, January 25, 2018A research project titled 'Intelligent games for assessing cognitive, social and physical capacities of elderly and children' was awarded a prize at the Pre-Dies Natalis symposium 'The Future of a Data-Driven Society'.
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Rappers more educated than pop artists?
Wednesday, August 16, 2017DKE student Thomas Vrancken uses text-mining to prove that the vocabulary of rappers is significantly richer than that pop music artists.
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Extracting spells in Harry Potter
Wednesday, July 19, 2017How many spells are cast by the characters in the seven Harry Potter books? That’s what master’s students of Data Science for Decision Making Moritz Haine and Markus Dienstknecht wanted to find out in celebration of Harry Potter’s 20th anniversary. To answer their question, they used text mining, an information retrieval technique common in computer science.
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DKE student wins Student StarCraft AI Tournament
Tuesday, March 28, 2017Martin Rooijackers (Master student Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering – Maastricht University) and his LetaBot took part in the annual Student StarCraft AI Tournament and won in both the student-division as well as the mixed division!
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UM student of Artificial Intelligence wins multiple awards
Tuesday, October 11, 2016Dennis Soemers won the award for the best student paper at the annual IEEE...
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KE@Work: First 10 students in academic work/study track to graduate
Monday, July 11, 2016On Wednesday, 13 July 2016 the first 10 bachelor's students to complete the work/study track KnowledgeEngineering@Work, a programme unique in the Netherlands, graduated.
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Rankings and awards
Artificial Intelligence is the #1 'Artificial intelligence' master's programme in the Netherlands
Keuzegids Masters 2019Data Science for Decision Making is the #1 computer science master's programme in the Netherlands
Keuzegids Masters 2019Data Science and Artificial Intelligence is the #2 'Artificial Intelligence' bachelor's programme in the Netherlands
Keuzegids Universiteiten 2020Silver education awards for KE@Work: Best University-Employer Partnership and discipline award Engineering & IT
Reimagine Education Awards 2018DKE student handbook
This study guide provides information on the educational programme of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE).
Project-Centred Learning
Project-Centred Learning (PCL) is a teaching method used in all of the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering’s programmes. Students study in small groups and the gained knowledge is applied to projects linked to the curriculum. The results of these projects are presented to teachers and fellow students.
Projects have included:
- Intelligent search engines
- Vision recognition systems
- Traffic simulation
- Analysis of ECGs
- Interactive mathematics courses
Skills training
PCL incorporates a number of important skills that are important to future employers. These skills include:
- Interview techniques
- Project planning
- Presentation techniques
- Working in teams
Student projects
At DKE, students are continuously exposed to interesting projects. Individual and group projects help our students to test their newly obtained knowledge and improve their abilities to solve real-world problems. Please note that due to work on cutting-edge technologies also in collaborations with outstanding companies, only a fraction of our past student projects are shown. Many project results have to be kept confidential due to non-disclosure agreements.
Diploma Supplement
Maastricht University issues a Diploma Supplement (DS) for its degree programmes. The DS is issued in English, given automatically and free of charge to every student upon graduation.
The DS is an internationally recognised document attached to the diploma in which the nature, level, context, content and status of the successfully completed degree programme is evaluated independently, as stated in the certificate in question of which the DS forms an integral part. It is free from any value judgments and concerns exclusively the degree programme followed by the student. The aim of the Diploma Supplement is to stimulate international ‘transparency’ and recognition of certificates obtained at home or abroad.
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