Admission

How to prepare yourself for this preparatory year ?

Making the transition from non-university level higher education (hautes écoles) to university is not easy.  The intellectual approach adopted at university is much more abstract and rigorous, and thus requires a different way of thinking.  you need to get accustomed to guiding and justifying your design choices based on underlying theoretical foundations and concepts.  For example, when implementing a software system, it does not suffice to know that a system works, you need to be able to justify why it works and that it has been well designed according to state-of-the-art development practices.

It is highly recommended to review your mathematics from secondary school (and the theory of integrals in particular), for example by enrolling in one of the summer courses that are organized near the end of August.

Some courses rely on the Oz programming language, which is taught to bachelor students in computer science.  It is therefore recommended that you read the book "Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi (ISBN 0-262-22069-5), which also serves as reference book for the course LINGI1131.

This preparatory year is accessible to students with a degree of "bachelier en informatique de gestion", "bachelier en informatique et systèmes", "bachelier en sciences industrielles".

Students having obtained a university degree in another discipline but with a sufficient background in computer science could also consider to reorient themselves towards a master in computer science via this preparatory year.

See the general admission requirements

Specific procedures :

To enrol, an application letter needs to be sent to the academic secretary of student affairs (Secrétaire Académique aux Affaires étudiantes) via the secretariat INGI (Bâtiment Réaumur - Place Ste-Barbe 2 - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve). The application letter needs to be completed with a curriculum vitae and a copy of the detailed results and marks obtained in all higher education studies followed previously by the student.