The duration of the study program leading to the Master’s of Science degree (Postgraduate Degree) is at a minimum three academic semesters. The maximum allowed duration of study is five semesters. In special occasions the Special General Assembly (for academic affairs) of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens may extend this time limit.
For the Ph.D. degree at least six semesters are required beyond the M.Sc degree.
The Postgraduate Program awards Master’s of Science degrees in the two directions of study (tracks), namely Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics.

Code	Course Title	Sem.	Instructor	Required		Elective
				Med.I	Bio.	Med.I	Bio.
ΥΠ 1	Biology - Physiology	1st	Karali (BRFAA) Anastasiadou (BRFAA)	X	X
ΥΠ 2	Pattern Recognition	1st	Perantonis (Demokritos)	X	X
ΥΠ I3	Medical Imaging Systems	1st	Kandarakis (ΤΕΙ-Α)	X
ΥΠ I4	Advanced Topics in Signal Processing	1st	Karampogias (NKUA) Eleftheriadis (NKUA)	X
ΥΠ I5	Statistical Signal Processing	1st	Theodoridis (NKUA)	X			X
ΥΠ Ι6	Acquisition and Processing of Biomedical Data	2nd	Ventouras (ΤΕΙ-Α)	X
ΥΠ 7	Image Processing and Analysis	2nd	Sangriotis (NKUA) Cavouras (ΤΕΙ-Α)	X	X
ΥΠ Ι8	Medical Information Technology and Telemedicine	2nd	Spyropoulos (ΤΕΙ-Α)	X
ΥΠ Ι9	Radiographic Anatomy	2nd	Oikonomou (Radiologist M.D/ΤΕΙ-Α)	X
ΥΠ Β3	Algorithms in Molecular Biology	1st	Vernikos (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)		X
ΥΠ Β4	Introduction to Biotechnology	1st	Vlahou (BRFAA) Tsangaris (BRFAA)		X
ΥΠ Β5	Introduction to Bioinformatics	1st	Hatzigeorgiou (Fleming)		X	X
ΥΠ Β6	Biomedical Databases	2nd	Ioannidis (NKUA) Gunopulos (NKUA)		X
ΥΠ Β8	Algorithms in Structural Bioinformatics	2nd	Emiris (NKUA)		X
ΥΠ Β9	Machine Learning Methods in Computational Biology	2nd	Manolakos (NKUA)		X
ΥΠ 10	Master's Thesis	2nd-3rd	-	X	X
ΕΠ 1	Embedded Systems	3rd	Manolakos (NKUA)			X	X
ΕΠ 2	Real Time Systems	3rd	Maroulis (NKUA)			X	X
ΕΠ 3	Biomedical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	3rd	Gunopulos (NKUA)			X	X
ΕΠ 4	Biostatistics	3rd	Linardatos (ΕΕΤΤ)			X	X
ΕΠ 5	Simulation Methods in Medicine and Biology	3rd	Spyrou (BRFAA)			X	X
ΕΠ 6	Methods and Applications in Neurosciences	3rd				X	X
ΕΠ Ι7	Intelligent Medical Systems	3rd	Maroulis (NKUA)			X
ΕΠ Ι8	Special Topics on Network Design	3rd				X
ΕΠ Ι10	Contemporary Hospital and Health-Care Services: Organization and Operation	3rd	Spyropoulos (ΤΕΙ-Α)			X
ΕΠ 11	Special Topics on Informatics and Biomedical Applications	3rd				X
ΕΠ Β7	Advanced Biotechnology	3rd					X
ΕΠ Β9	Special Topics on Bioinformatics	3rd	Vernikos (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)				X

 

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The courses offered by the Master’s degree program are listed in the table above. The teaching hours per course are 3 or 4 per week.
Each student must attend and pass eleven (11) courses, nine (9) required-core courses, and two (2) elective courses, selected from a list of offered courses. The elective courses may vary every year. The core courses depend on the direction of study and are taught in the first two semesters of the program.
A Master’s thesis of research or applied nature is required as part of the Master’s Degree. Thesis preparation starts during the second semester but the main part of the thesis work and its writing is performed in the third semester.

Students lacking relevant background knowledge may be required, in addition to the regular courses, to be successfully examined in some of the following undergraduate courses, offered by the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens:

1. Data Structures
2. Digital Signal Processing
3. A programming language course (in C or C++).