Admission and selection criteria

Candidates from any country may apply to the Master. However, there are differences between European and Non-European candidates for the application process. In order to clear up the category a student belongs to, we recall that Erasmus Mundus considers as European students:

• Students who are nationals from the 27 EU Member States: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, UK, Sweden, Bulgaria, Malta, Poland, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania.
  
• Students who are nationals from one of the EEA-EFTA states: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
  
• Students who have resided or carried out their main activities (studies, work, etc.) for more than 12 months over the past five years (preceding the start of the academic year) in any of the above listed countries.

All other students are considered as Non-European students, including candidates from: Switzerland, Turkey and the Western Balkans region (i.e. Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, FYRoM, Montenegro and Serbia). As, by October 2009, none of these countries has signed an agreement for its participation in the Erasmus Mundus Programme, they have to be considered as Third-countries.

The DKMK’s consortium has adopted a single admission procedure, which is administered and managed online. In order to guarantee the best recruitment possible, thus maximising the students' chances of success, the selection procedure is divided in two phases. The first aims to ensure that the candidate has the appropriate profile and required diplomas; it consists of filling in the Application form online and upload all required documents. The second step is an interview to ascertain whether the candidate show adequate communication skills. The aim of the interview, in English, is also to identify the most appropriate programme for the shortlisted students. This interview is organised with videoconferencing using standard equipment such as Skype or MSN Live.

Admission criteria: To be eligible to apply for the Master's programme DMKM, students must satisfy to both of the following conditions:

• Be the holder of a Bachelor's degree (a minimum of three years' study at a university and corresponding to the equivalent of 180 ECTS) in the fields of Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics:
  
  
  
  • When applying, since visa process takes a long time, for Students living in third countries.
    
  • By July, 15th, For Students living in EU.
    
  
  
  
  
• Mastering English at a level equivalent to 550 TOEFL.
  

  On this site, a table with the conversion rate between TOEFL International score and other English proficiency scale is reported. More precisely, the minimum scores required to be acceptable for the Master are the following ones:

  
  
  • TOEFL International (Paper) ≥ 550
    
  • TOEFL Computer ≥ 213
    
  • TOEFL IBT ≥ 79
    
  • IELTS ≥ 6.0
    
  • TOEIC ≥ 690
    
  • VEC Online ≥ 74
  • CPE graded B
    
  
  

_{If the above list does not mention your test, please upload your certificate of proficiency in english in the application online.}

^{Important: Students who have carried out their education training in English may just send a letter from their university specifying that the education programme is English.}

Your TOEFL Centre may ask you the code of our university to send the results. The TOEFL code of the University Lyon 2 is: 6537

Evaluation criteria for candidates: Selection of the candidates who satisfy the admission criteria is based on the following points:

• Quality of the results obtained in the last three years of university study (20 pts);
  
• Adequacy of knowledge already acquired in the Master’s subjects (10 pts);
  
• Previous work placements done by the candidate (2 pts);
  
• Knowledge of foreign languages other than English and the mother language (2 pts);
  
• Evaluations, made by at least two teachers (or senior researchers) who have known the student, regarding his/her suitability to enroll in a Master's programme (5 pts);
  
• Student's motivations and personal project (20 pts).
  
• Oral expression ability and communication skills (16 pts)