Each of Skoltech’s two-year Master’s programs comprise 120 ECTS credits.
Year 1 focuses on strengthening theoretical background, and
Year 2 is mostly devoted to research.
All curriculum elements (courses, projects) are classified into categories – streams, each with responsibility for developing certain graduate qualities (Skoltech Learning Outcomes Framework). To ensure that students benefit from the unique features of a Skoltech education, the number of credits per stream (degree requirements) is set and applies to all students who want to graduate with a Master’s degree from Skoltech.
Includes compulsory and elective parts, including disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses targeting scientific and engineering fundamentals corresponding to the field and prospective professional activities of graduates.
It is a compulsory part and includes practical projects for obtaining skills and experience in the corresponding professional area (industrial immersion).
Includes the Innovation Workshop (compulsory part) and subjects related to the elective part. The purpose of Stream 3 is to study the full innovation cycle of product production – from identifying the needs and assessing the options to meet them to carrying out operations with economic and other effects, as well as gaining initial experience in innovation and acquiring relevant skills.
It is a compulsory part and includes research work, early research project, thesis research project and thesis defense in order to consolidate all the obtained learning results: acquired knowledge, skills and experience in the field of scientific and engineering fundamentals.
Includes courses from the course catalog and/or additional research or innovation projects.
Students can choose courses from the Course Catalog and extracurricular activities to build their individual trajectory and to prepare for job placement
| Skoltech requirements | FSE 3++ standards requirements, ECTS credits | ||||
| block 1 | block 2 | block 3 | |||
| courses, at least 24 ECTS credits | practice, research, at least 45 ECTS credits | state final assess- ment, 6-9 ECTS credits | |||
| Streams | elective part | compulsory part, at least 20%, 23 ECTS credits | |||
| 1. Science, Technology and Engineering | 36 ECTS credits | 36 | |||
| 2. Research Immersion | 12 ECTS credits | 12 | |||
| 3. Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E&I)” | 6 ECTS credits | 6 | |||
| 4. Research & MSc Thesis Project | 48 ECTS credits | 9 | 30 | 9 | |
| 5. Options | 18 ECTS credits | 12 | 6 | ||
| Total | 120 | 48 | 15 | 48 | 9 |
| including compulsory part | 63 | ||||
| including elective part | 63 | ||||