Research School 'Information and Data Engineering'

This Hasso Plattner Institute research school trains doctoral researchers in data-intensive systems, data engineering, and information engineering. Its research environment covers scalable architectures, data pipelines, analytics, machine learning, and AI-oriented information processing.

Academic requirements

Supervision agreement; Report of intent to pursue doctoral studies; Copies of university transcripts; Curriculum vitae in tabular form

Minimum GPA

None stated.

English requirements

The official HPI research-school pages do not require a specific language certificate, but they state that applicants should have a decent level of English to conduct research and communicate with supervisors, fellow researchers, and project partners.

Accepted bachelor fields

Applicants need a master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related field with a strong computational and theoretical foundation.

APS Certificate

Yes

Tuition fee

None

Semester contribution

354.80 EUR per semester if enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the University of Potsdam (current Summer Semester 2026 semester fee).

Funding info

Tuition: None Semester contribution: 354.80 EUR per semester if enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the University of Potsdam (current Summer Semester 2026 semester fee).

The programme prepares doctoral researchers for advanced research careers in data engineering, large-scale information systems, analytics, machine learning, and related academic or industrial R&D fields.

• 1

  Artificial Intelligence

  Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS)

  Würzburg · Master of Science · English

• 2

  Communications Engineering and Data Science (CoDaS)

  Technische Universität Braunschweig

  Braunschweig · Master of Science · English

• 3

  Applied Mathematics for Network and Data Sciences

  Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

  Mittweida · Master of Science · English

• 4

  Artificial Intelligence (AI), MSc

  FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

  Erlangen · Master of Science · English

• 5

  Web and Data Science

  University of Koblenz

  Koblenz · Master of Science · English