UC3M - Double Master Degree in Telecommunications Engineering and Big Data Analytics
Graduate School of Engineering and Basic Sciences
- Direction
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Prof. José Manuel Sánchez Pena, / BIG DATA: Prof. Carlos Ruíz Mora
- Language
- Spanish, English
- Attendance
- On-campus
- Credits
- 126
- Campus
- Madrid - Puerta de Toledo, Leganes
- Applications
- Departments
- Electronic Technology Department, Signal and Communications Theory Department, Telematic Engineering Department, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Statistics Department, Mathematics Department, UC3M-Santander Big Data Institute (IBiDat)
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MASTER IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING MASTER IN BIG DATA ANALYTICS The UC3M offers you the possibility of jointly studying the Master in Telecommunications Engineering, along with the Master in Big Data Analytics. The former allows you to acquire the training to practice as a Telecommunications Engineer. This study option means you will obtain a high level of specialization and research training that will put you in prime position regarding employment and / or access to Ph.D. studies.
VERSIONS
Two versions of the Master in Telecommunications Engineering are offered: a bilingual version taught on the Madrid-Puerta de Toledo Campus and a Spanish version taught on the Leganés Campus.
Students may select whichever one of the two versions they wish to follow during the admissions process. This choice only affects the first course.
The Master in Big Data Analytics is taught in English in Madrid-Puerta de Toledo Campus.
Master in Telecommunications Engineering
The Master in Telecommunications Engineering is a professional Master to replace the Telecommunications Engineering undergraduate degree and enables you to practice as a Telecommunications Engineer, under the provisions of Order CIN / 355/2009 of 9th February.
The Spanish Association of Engineers requires professionals, from companies in the telecommunications field (major manufacturers of telecommunications equipment or telephone service providers) and from other companies, institutions or organizations that need qualified personnel to design and maintain their own telecommunications systems.
The overall aim of the Master in Telecommunications Engineering is to train professionals who are competent to practice as Telecommunications Engineers. The Master is geared towards advanced training and enhancing employability
Master in Big Data Analytics
Our Master program is oriented towards the training of people interested in working in data analytics, and in particular of analytics involving the evaluation of very large volumes of data in companies and organizations. Master’s students, either recently graduated or professionals, will receive both additional formation in the basic foundations of the analytics methods used for Big Data, and familiarity with their potential applications in different areas of interest.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the use of applications based on analytic languages such as R and Python. The courses will also introduce data storage and processing paradigms such as MapReduce or noSQL, and their implementations (Hadoop, Storm, Spark, etc...), as well as cloud storing and computing methodologies. This knowledge will prepare them to handle large data sets and to conduct complex statistical and computational analysis of these data, to obtain results in pattern identification, prediction, forecasting, simulation or optimization, relevant for the improvement of the efficiency in the activities of companies and organizations.
As an illustration of this potential demand, the French government expects that the needs for professionals with these qualifications during the coming five years on the whole of the EU will be in excess of 300,000 persons. In Spain, the use of these techniques is expected to increase by at least 300% in the next three years.
MASTERS IN NUMBERS
◉ TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
- ☛ 40 students per class
- ☛ 80% of professors are PhD
- ☛ 4th Master Degree in Engineering according to the “Ranking de El Mundo” (2015/16)
- ☛ Employment rates for Telecommunication Engineering and Computer Engineering above 91% and unemployment rates equal to or less than 5% (INE, 2014)
- ☛ The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is the 2nd sector according to the number of job offers generated with an increase of 11% (European Job Index, Robert Walters, first quarter 2016)
- ☛ The ICT sector is the 4th with better wages (INE, 2014)
- ☛ Training Telecommunication Engineers since 1995 (Master according to RD 1393/2007, 29 of October, since 2010)
- ☛ 6 Double Degrees with Academic/Professional and Research Masters degrees
◉ BIG DATA ANALYTICS
- ☛ 40 students per class
- ☛ International environment (more than 10 nationalities in class)
- ☛ 100% of the students graduated in the Master received a job offer before completing the Master or few weeks later
- ☛ It was the 1st official Master on the topic that received a positive evaluation from ANECA as designed in accordance with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)
- CURRICULUM
- CURRICULUM
STRUCTURE
The Double Master's Degree Curriculum is structured around two academic years in which you will take 72 ECTS from the Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering and 54 ECTS from the Master's Degree in Big Data Analytics.
The 126 total credits from the dual curriculum is broken down as follows:
- In the first year, students take subjects for the Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering (30 ECTS in each semester). Each semester you will take five core subjects of 6 ECTS each.
- During the second year of teaching, you will take specialty subjects in Big Data Analytics (42 compulsory ECTS and 6 elective ECTS), and the 2 Master's Thesis corresponding to each master's degree.
You will have 24 validated ECTS credits, and on completion you receive two Official Master's Degree qualifications.
Academic Year 1 - Semester 1
Telecommunications Engineering Subjects ECTS TYPE Language Design and Operation of Communication Networks 6 C 
Advanced Multimedia Services 6 C Electronic Circuit Design for Communication 6 C Radio Frequency and Antenna Subsystems 6 C Data Processing 6 C Academic Year 1 - Semester 2
Telecommunications Engineering Subjects ECTS TYPE Language Design of Telematics Applications 6 C Electronic Instrumentation and Optoelectronics 6 C 
Design and Simulation of Communication Systems 6 C Advanced Techniques in Signal Processing and Communications 6 C Project Management and Telecommunications Policy 6 C Academic Year 2 - Semester 1
Master's Thesis Subjects ECTS TYPE Language Master's Thesis. Telecommunications Engineering 12 C Academic Year 2 - Semester 2
Big Data Analytics Subjects ECTS TYPE Language Bayesian learning 3 C Time series analysis and forecasting 3 C Business Applications of Big data Analytics 3 C Web data analytics and usage 3 C Choose two electives Information security and technological risk management 3 E Data Analytics for the Smart Society 3 E Network analysis and data visualization 3 E Master's Thesis Subjects ECTS TYPE Language Master's Thesis. Master in Big Data Analytics 6 C C) Compulsory
E) Elective
TFM) Master's Thesis
course Programs
- QUALITY
Telecommunications Engineering
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
☛ First year offered: 2010
- Information about Master´s Degree
- Verification Report
- Monitoring of Official Degrees
- International seal of quality EURACE
Graduate Profile and Competences
PROGRAMME’S QUALITY ASSURANCE
The Academic Committee of the Master’s programme complies with the SGIC-UC3M and it is responsible for the follow-up, analysis, review, assessment and quality of the program, it contributes with proposals to improve the program and produces the “Memoria Académica de Titulación” (Programme Report).
QUALITY INDICATORS
BIG DATA ANALYTICS
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
☛ First year offered: 2015
Graduate Profile and Competences
PROGRAMME’S QUALITY ASSURANCE
The Academic Committee of the Master’s programme complies with the SGIC-UC3M and it is responsible for the follow-up, analysis, review, assessment and quality of the program, it contributes with proposals to improve the program and produces the “Memoria Académica de Titulación” (Programme Report).
QUALITY INDICATORS
- CURRICULUM
- ADMISSION
- ADMISSION
Application
The request is made electronically through our application. Before starting the admission process, please, read the following information:
Requirements
Check the requirements of the Master in Telecommunications Engineering.
Check the requirements of the Master in Big Data Analytics.
Admission criteria
Check the admission criteria of the Master in Telecommunications Engineering.
Check the admission criteria of the Master in Big Data Analytics.
Language requirements
Check the general language requirements required to study a Master’s at UC3M, depending on whether it is in Spanish, English or bilingual.
STUDENTS with foreign university degrees
Check the requirements of the Master in Telecommunications Engineering for students with foreign university degrees.
Check the requirements of the Master in Big Data Analytics for students with foreign university degrees.
Important
The admission process is carried out by the commission of each master independently and therefore, to access the double degree, it is necessary to have been previously admitted in both master's degrees
- ENROLLMENT
FEES *
2022-2023 Academic year
Telecommunications Engineering Reservation fee1 €450 Price EU students €29.78 / ECTS Price Non EU students €154.80 / ECTS Credits enrolling 72 ECTS Credits that are recognized (without cost)2 18 ECTS Big Data Analytics Reservation fee1 €450 Price EU students €80 / ECTS Price Non EU students €120 / ECTS Credits enrolling2 54 ECTS Credits that are recognized (without cost)2 6 ECTS 1 Admission to the double master's program implies payment of the two reservation fees, one for each master's, within 10 calendar days of receiving notification of admission (this amount will be deducted from the first tuition payment). The reservation fee will only be refunded if the master program is cancelled. [+] information
NOTE: The enrolment fees do not include the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate
* Pending approval by the Community of Madrid for the academic year 22/23IMPORTANT
2 Admission and registration on the double master's degree course will provide exemption from ECTS credits which will be recognized according to the curriculum (see Program). Having obtained credits from both syllabuses, together with recognition of 24 ECTS you will be able to obtain two official master's qualifications in little more than a year and a half.
☛ Enrollment completely registers the student in the Master's Degree.
☛ A minimum enrollment of 25 students will have to be reached for each elective subject to be taught.
Additional information
- You may enrol on the master’s degree after completing the admission process and receiving formal confirmation of your acceptance.
- When performing the enrolment you can choose between Full-time enrolment or Part-time enrolment.
- The email address provided upon enrolment will be used for formal communications; students are therefore kindly requested to check their mail regularly.
- Pursuant to the regulations of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, a student failing to pay any part of the fees will not be admitted and the enrolment process will be terminated. In cases of cancellation of enrolment due to non-payment, the University may demand the payment of the pending amounts for enrolment in previous academic courses as a prior condition of enrolment.
No diploma or certificate will be issued if a student has any outstanding payments.
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