Artificial Intelligence

Description. Launched in 2022, this online program by ITMO and Napoleon IT offers industry-oriented practical training for future mid-level experts in machine learning: data analysts, architects, and engineers; AI architects and project managers; technical analysts.

Applicants. The program is aimed at both specialists currently working in IT and beginners who want to study machine learning. Application requirements include being well-versed in mathematical analysis, linear algebra, probability theory, statistics, basic algorithms of machine learning and neural networks, as well as knowledge of Python.

Curriculum. Each student gets to build their individualized educational track. They can choose from more than 100 courses on various topics, such as: machine learning and neural networks; C++; Python; Java; Scala; Kotlin; computer vision and natural language processing; machine learning methods in genomics, chemistry, and biotechnologies, and others. The program’s partners, which include Gazprom Neft and Napoleon IT, offer students an opportunity to take part in real industrial projects. 

Career prospects. Graduates can work as engineers in machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing, as well as data scientists or AI product managers. Companies with such positions include Gazprom Neft, MTS, Napoleon IT, Sberbank, and others.

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Highload Systems

Description. This is a corporate program launched by ITMO and Yandex in 2023. Its goal is to train mid-level developers, full stack developers, team leads, and future managers for major IT companies that design and implement complex software systems.

Applicants. The program is designed for beginner-level developers and graduates of IT-related Bachelor’s programs.

Curriculum. The program’s modules concern subjects like algorithms and data structures, computer networks, databases – and modern industrial programming in Python, Java, C++, and Golang. Students will focus on study projects and real-world IT products, all under the guidance of practicing experts from Yandex. Experienced students can opt for the fast track, which would allow them to complete the program in just one year.

Career prospects. Graduates of the program will be able to work as mid-level or full-stack developers, as well as team leaders in major Russian tech companies, such as Yandex, Sberbank, Aviro, MTS, and others.

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Mathematical Technologies for Systems Analysis

Description. The Master’s program is for students with a major in mathematics or computer science. 

Curriculum. Students will study programming, machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, and big data processing and storage to develop novel and explore the existing mathematical models, predict the behavior of mechanical, quantum, optical, magnetic, chemical and biological systems, as well as process and present data. 

Career prospects. A degree opens up a lot of opportunities: as a mathematician programmer, a data scientist/engineer, a system analyst, a mathematical analyst, a mathematician algorithmist, a design engineer, a science programmer, or a mathematician. Possible employers include Tinkoff, Gazprom Neft, Sibur, and Veeam.

Electric Drive Engineering

Description. This new online program in engineering sciences is aimed at those who wish to design electromechanical systems, operate electrical equipment, and program microcontrollers. 

Applicants. This will be of interest for students striving to expand their engineering skills. 

Curriculum. Over the course of the program, students will explore electrical equipment and hardware and control systems, as well as gain skills in circuitry, power electronics, control systems of digital electrical drives, microprocessor technology, microcontroller programming, and programmable logic integrated circuits. 

Career prospects. With a degree in electric drive engineering, you may become an engineer, a design engineer, or a service engineer who can code and design electromechanical systems at machine and engineering companies, like Elektroavtomatika, Diakont, or Transmashholding.

Chemistry Software

Description. Chemistry Software is Russia’s first online program in chemistry and IT. Starting this year, ITMO will train specialists who will develop software for use in chemistry, biotechnology, medical diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, industrial robotics, healthcare, and adjacent fields.

Applicants. The program welcomes prospective students with a background in chemistry and chemical engineering, biology, biotechnology, medicine, mathematics, physics, or IT. 

Curriculum. You will acquire skills in software development, the Internet of things (IoT), analysis and visualization of big data, computing chemistry, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality (AR), as well as learn to deploy the obtained knowledge to, for instance, optimize the synthesis of life-saving medications or develop mobile testing systems or wearable devices for health monitoring. 

Career prospects. Graduates of the program can be chemical developers, experts in chemoinformatics, machine learning specialists in chemistry, developers of apps and software for chemical equipment at the R&D departments of such companies as Gazprom Neft, Agama, ScienceSoft, and NT-MDT.

Digital Products: Development and Management

Description. This is an online program which will welcome its first students in fall, that offers training via the educational platform Netology. It is designed for future product managers in IT with no prior technical background who want to learn to manage all stages related to the release of a digital product, including its development and creation. 

Applications. The program is for both novice and current specialists who have launched and managed digital products.

Curriculum. During their studies, students will dive deep into all stages of digital product creation: they will learn to analyze the needs of the market and their audience, create a product’s concept, coordinate the development process, promote novel products, and perform product analysis. As a result, students will master two specializations simultaneously as product managers and product analysts, and will be able to launch their own startups. 

Career prospects. Graduates will be able to develop and manage digital products in various fields, including edtech, gamedev, retail, e-commerce, and fintech, and find employment at such companies as Ozon, Kontur, Megafon, Raiffeisenbank, and many others.

Product Design

Description. Launched in 2022, Product Design is a joint Master’s program by the educational platform Netology and ITMO University that seeks to train mid-level specialists who develop user-friendly products following user requests. 

Applicants. The program is designed for both novices and designers with some experience.

Curriculum. Over the course of two years, students will try their hand at solving a range of problems: from writing technical specifications, identifying hypotheses, creating user scenarios, and conducting the associated research to managing teams and designing mobile apps, multi-page sites, and systems. 

Career prospects. Graduates are qualified to be product, UX/UI, or web designers, mobile app designers, Tilda experts, as well as UX/CX researchers and usability specialists at ITMO and Netology’s partner companies, such as Ozon, Megafon, Raiffeisenbank, and so on.

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How to apply

Prospective students can enroll into the above Master’s programs in one of the following ways:

• Entrance exams;
• ITMO’s Mega Contest;
• I Am a Professional contest;
• ITMO’s Portfolio Contest;
• Getting a letter of recommendation from the head of the program, which needs to include a list of the student’s academic and scientific achievements, as well as their research interests and skills.

Explore all the opportunities for applicants here.