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About us

The Faculty of Informatics (FI) was established in 1994 to become the first faculty of the kind in the Czech Republic forming in more than one aspect the prototype for similar faculties of the kind at other universities. The faculty offers a system of studies that is open to the maximum to allow the students to choose specialisation by their personal interests. The faculty rests on overall conception of informatics as a branch combining a number of information disciplines and domains with sharp multiple field combination features. The faculty owns modern hardware based on high-speed networks and the whole faculty campus is covered by wireless technology. The Faculty of Informatics has developed and operates university information system supporting study activities, related administration and e-learning. The system won a prestigious award for elite European university information system in 2005 ranking Masaryk University as the first one from the Central and Easter Europe to another six awarded universities. Faculty’s ambitions include high-quality education for the information society of the third millennium.

The Faculty of Informatics belong to the leading research and development institutions in the Czech Republic and has established itself as an important institution in international context. An evidence of that is, among others, faculty’s quite high rate of success in winning national and international research grants and projects. The faculty focuses its research activities on the principle research plan oriented to the issues of parallel and distributed computer systems. FI research and development concentrates on multiple areas of computer science fields, such as theoretical informatics, quantum informatics, database systems, image analysis and computer graphics, computer networks, computer learning and data search or natural language processing.

Intensive international collaboration in research and development is implemented through, besides numerous individual contacts, international projects. At present, the faculty contributes to two excellence networks within the 6^th EU framework programme. Faculty’s international significance and role reflects in the growing number of important international conferences and workshops hosted by the faculty and in the visits of world leading experts coming to the faculty to lecture of the most recent results, particularly during the traditional Information Colloquia. At national level, the faculty cooperates with the leading institutions in informatics and related fields, particularly affiliated to the Czech Academy of Sciences.

The Faculty of Informatics offers a wide range of the fields of study of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes. The bachelor’s degree programmes of Informatics and Applied Informatics represent the basic level of university education in informatics. The master’s degree programmes offer courses in three basic fields and a number of specialisations from theoretical informatics through information systems, natural language processing or graphic design. The doctoral studies open the degree programme of Informatics that allows the students to perform their research and development activities in all information fields within the programme under the supervision of experienced tutors. The studies at the faculty are characteristic with close relation to research activities. The gifted master’s and doctoral degree programme students are given the opportunity of working in one of the eight special research laboratories and contribute, thus, to faculty’s research activities directly.

Faculty’s goal is to offer open concept studies of modern type with versatile job options for the graduates. The studies are based on research training and theoretical knowledge of the field. Such a concept allows the graduates to understand the principle of used tools and systems and to be able of independently operating them rather then been trained in practical usage of the tools and/or methods. The graduates then get in favourable position in labour market being able of creative answers to revolutionary changes brought in by informatics development.

Faculty of Informatics in numbers

• As of 31 October 2011, there were 2,623 students of regular diploma studies at this faculty altogether, out of which 1,556 in bachelor's degree programmes, 937 in master's degree programmes.
• As of 31 October 2011 another 130 students were in the doctoral degree programmes.
• We have 4 departments, employing 230 personnel, out of which 16 are professors and 20 associate professors.
• The students are taught by 206 instructors altogether, out of which 108 are MU staff, 53 students and 45 externs outside MU.
• In 2011 we registered 2,893 applicants for studies in all open admission procedures, out of which 1,936 were accepted.
• We educate 35 seriously handicapped students.
• The number of students going abroad in the academic year of 2011/2012 was 58, the number of students coming from abroad in the same academic year was 3.
• The graduates from regular studies in 2011 reached the number of 487, out of which 290 from bachelor’s, 182 from master’s and 15 from PhD studies.
• Our graduates labour market very well (Graduate employment record).
• Since 1995, there have been 4,230 graduates from the studies at our faculty.

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