Studying Web Science

There are a number of institutions around the world where you can study Web Science. For further information on each of the institutions, click on the link below.

The Doctoral Training Centre for Web Science at the University of Southampton was launched in 2009 and is run by Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Dr Leslie Carr and Professor Catherine Pope with Professor Nigel Shadbolt as Research Director, http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/
The Oxford Internet Institute was founded as a department of the University of Oxford in 2001, as an academic centre for the study of the societal implications of the internet, http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, http://www.csail.mit.edu/
The School of Communication at Northwestern University, Illinois http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/
Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute explores the research and engineering principles that underlie the Web, http://tw.rpi.edu/
Eindhoven University of Technology. Web Science is one of the two Bachelor's tracks within the Bachelor's program Technische Informatica (Computer Science & Engineering). The other track is Software Science. http://www.tue.nl/studeren/bacheloropleidingen/technische-informatica/web-science/ or http://stuvo.tue.nl/scholieren/bacheloropleidingen/web-science-track.html
Cologne University, Germany. Starting in the winter semester 2011/2012 will be offering a Master Programme "Web Science". It is an extra-occupational course of studies that makes extensive use of the Web's cooperation and e-learning technologies. http://www.webscience.fh-koeln.de
University of Linz, Austria will begin running a Studies of Web Science within the Master's Degree Program in October 2011. For more information go to http://www.jku.at
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Mathematics Department is offering a Masters in Web Science http://www.webscience.auth.gr/
Swansea University Msc Specialism in Web Science http://www.swan.ac.uk/compsci/msc/AMScWebSci/
International Baccalaureate, an international pre-university qualification. Starting in August 2012 the Diploma Programme Computer Science course will offer a Web Science option covering topics such as analysis of the web, web developments and the inter-relationship between user behaviour and web technologies. Further details about the International Baccalaureate and the Computer Science course can be obtained from the IB website www.ibo.org .
University of Koblenz, Institute for Web Science and Technologies will be offering a two year Master's course about Web Science in English as of October 2012. Highly qualified graduates of the programme will become electable for consectuive Ph.D. studies in Web Science http://west.uni-koblenz.de

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