drunken4mylife

Hi, all. I have been admitted to the MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning provided by University College Londone (UCL), UK. I'm wondering about the duration of the programme. When I was applying, I thought the duration of the programme was two years, as usual, but after looking through the pages of the web site (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/msccsml/programme.html) I found out that the programme consists of three terms which add up to a "single" year. Moreover, the third term which seems to last only two or three months is for the master's thesis. Is it common in UK to do the master's degree in a single year? Will there be any kind of disadvantage compared to doing the master's degree in two years? or will there be any advantage? I hope to get some kind answers from you guys soon, since I gotta confirm my admittance in a bit hurry. Thank you, in advance, for you answers. Bye.

Thanks to both of you for your replies. I think your answers are about all I can get from any forum whose running language is English. They are, however, much more than what I can get in Korea (I just cannot find any professor in CS department who did his/her degree in any place other than the united states). Thank you again. I guess I'll just wait one more week for the result from KTH, and I will just have to throw a dice, after all. Although I've almost lost any hope for getting more information, more comment would be really appreciated.

Hi, all. I'm a undergraduate student studying computer science in korea (obviously, south korea). For last few days, I have received admissions from TU Delft and TKK(Helsinki University of Technology), and I am waiting for the admission result from KTH which is expected to come out in a week or so. I applied for master's program in computer science in TU Delft, and for TKK I applied for master's programme in machine learning and data mining. For KTH, my application is for master's program in distributed system under computer science department. In korea, it is such a difficult task to gather information on european universities, as most professors and instuctors obtained their degrees in either united states or korea. I hope you guys may help me out here. Which one is better among three universities regarding computer science? My criteria mostly concern the "research capability(or achievement)" of the university and the chance of participating in research activities as a master's student. Also, I'm currently thinking about furthering my study through ph.d after obtaining the master's degree. Any comment from you would be most valuable to me. Thank you