Thanks for the info.
am willing to study in english for sure although am french educated,and my english isn't bad after all.as for the challenge on the academic level,am up for that,i'd rather have a good and not easy education and getting average grades than having a poor education and getting high grades.
there is 10 courses as far as i know in the first year from which 1 is related to CS (Informatics I) 2 physics and the rest is math but i checked the courses in the second and third year and it's almost pure cs (only 1 math course and 1 statistics course)
Guitaret wrote
Anyway I must ask, does anybody know about the computer science MS degree in LU? Do I need to have a BS in computer science from LU? Is the attendance mandatory?
يمكن لكل كلية أو معهد ، وفقا" لأنظمة كل منها ، أن تقبل طلبة ينتقلون إليها من جامعات أخرى شرط تقديم المستندات المطلوبة للتسجيل مصدّقة حسب الأصول ، بالإضافة إلى إفادة صادرة عن الجامعة التي كان الطالب يتابع دراسته فيها تبيّن تاريخ إنتسابه إلى السنة الأولى ونتائج جميع إمتحاناته والمواد التي درسه
this is the general rule,as for the cs program in particular,you have to submit your documents,and the applications are studied on a case by case basis,you may be admitted to the master 1 program directly (M1) or you will have to take some courses before starting the master program,the M1 is open for anybody with a BS in CS from LU.
But things are different for the master 2 program(M2),for the M2 you have a choice between a variety of professional masters (software engineering,web and mobile development..) and research masters (Bioinformatics,informatics and telecommunication..) and being admitted to one of the masters is a hard process,students who finished the M1 and willing to continue for M2 will have to submit an application that includes all their uni grades and official exams (bac 2) grades,a first jury will eliminate some of the candidates,then a second jury will interview each candidate and chose a very low number of students from them (10 to 13 per master),for the professional master you will have to make a project and work on a project in some company as an internship(there is courses also of course)and for the research master,you will have a full semester internship in a research center(usually outside lebanon,in france or another country) and you will have to write some kind of a research also.
the M1 by itself is a considered a master,and lots of students study the M1 and stop,the M2 is somewhere between a PhD and a master and obtaining it is a hard task (obviously :P) but the pros are that some of M2 grads (specially research) work as universities professors (in LU and other universities) but they mostly teach the practical part of cs or give lab sessions rather than teaching the theoretical part.