Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network ma

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network ma

The H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund's main train station, and from there, the S-Bahn takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Technical focus

Technical focus "Data Science

Contents of the technical focus "Data Science

Data Science is changing our daily lives as much as Gutenberg's letterpress printing. Whether we ask intelligent voice assistants on our smartphone for a child-friendly restaurant with free parking spaces, physicists search for the origin of our universe at the South Pole, journalists ask the Internet for a political fact check or vehicles drive themselves, there is always data behind it. In the collected data, data science algorithms recognize the structure of the world and add to their and our knowledge: Learning is the key to intelligence, in humans and machines.

... the sexiest job of the 21st century. (Harward Business Review)

If data is the gold of our time, then Data Scientists are the modern-day gold miners. But Data Scientists don't just find gold; they capture and manage the data, interpret the results, and communicate the knowledge they find. If you decide to major in "Data Science", you will be well prepared for many professional tasks in development, research and science.

Requirements for the specialization "Data Science

Master thesis

The supervisor of the master's thesis must assign the thesis to the subject specialization.

You must acquire at least 30 credit points with the following modules:

Basic modules

Architecture and implementation of database systems
Pattern Recognition
Practical Optimization
Knowledge discovery in databases

Advanced modules

Selected chapters of Computational Intelligence
Computer Vision
Data Processing on Modern Hardware
Database Theory
Data Visualization
Graph Algorithms
Large-Scale Optimization
Machine Learning
Natural Language Systems
Numerical Optimization
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Speech Recognition

Seminars and student research project

The supervisors of the seminars and the student research project have to assign the achievements to the subject focus, if seminars or student research project shall contribute to the 30 credit points. How many seminars you can take can be found in the examination regulations.