Overview
Key features
Graduate students in the Ph.D thesis based Software Engineering program at McMaster University are focused on advancing knowledge of software lifecycle from design, implementation, and testing to documentation and maintaining, through intensive research in their chosen area of interest.
Programme Structure
Areas of research include:- Combinatorial computing and optimization
- Complexity, design and analysis of algorithms
- Computer vision
- Computational geometry
- Control systems
- Discrete event systems, discrete geometry
- Formal methods
- Mathematical programming
- Mechanized mathematics
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Software Engineering View 4 other PhDs in Software Engineering in CanadaAcademic requirements
English requirements
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Equivalent of an M.Eng. or M.A.Sc. degree in Software Engineering
- B+ minimum average, based on previous graduate work
- All post-secondary academic work completed to date
- Two academic references from instructors most familiar with your academic work.
- English language proficiency
- Statement of Interest
Tuition Fee
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4204 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2102 CAD per semester during 48 months. -
National
4204 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2102 CAD per semester during 48 months.
Living costs for Hamilton
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Scholarships Information
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