• Customize Your Master's Degree: Choose your areas of concentration from a wide range of cross-disciplinary options and based on your personal interests; focus on business-related applications. 
• Focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI): As part of the ELIT Master's degree program, you can specialize in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Students design AI hardware and software and focus on applying AI and machine learning to data and signals. 
• Outstanding Support: During your studies, a dedicated team of faculty members will be at your side to mentor and guide you. 
• Hands-on Experience During your Studies, Excellent Career Prospects: The program has been designed to provide you with a sound educational foundation that will open the doors to countless professions and sectors in electronics and information technology. The JKU has partnered with a number of local and international companies, giving you opportunities to work on real-world projects and acquire hands-on experience, as well as consider exciting career prospects during your studies.

The Master's degree program in Electronics and Information Technology (ELIT) includes a wide range of electives, giving students ample choice to select an area of concentration in line with their personal interests:

• High frequency technology
• Integrated circuit design
• Digital hardware design
• Signal and information processing
• Communications engineeringk
• Microsensors and microsystems technology 

The subject area of “ELIT Supplementation” includes the following areas of specialization:

• Control Engineering
• Embedded Systems 
• Electrical Drive Technology and Power Electronics 
• Semiconductor Physics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Measurement Technology and Sensor Technology
• Software Engineering
• Autonomous Systems
• Biomedical and Medical Electronics
• Electrodynamics

Focus on Artificial Intelligence: Students in the ELIT program can also opt to specialize in AI! Graduates will possess the expertise to design AI hardware and software, becoming experts in applying AI and machine learning to data and signals.

Listen in as Professor Huemer talks about how diverse this subject area is, what he considers to be a good classroom lecture, and what he is currently working on.

The foundations provided during your studies serve as the backbone to eventually conduct scientific research or pursue an engineering career. Thanks to a wide range of specialization areas - including AI - you will be able to focus on selected scientific areas and conduct initial independent research. As a graduate you will have:

• a comprehensive understanding and a high-level of expertise in mathematical, scientific, and theoretical fields, allowing you to apply your skills to address and solve real-world problems
• advanced educational opportunities in groundbreaking sectors of electronics and information technology 
• the opportunity to specialize in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in Machine Learning
• analytical thinking skills and a strong technical understanding of cross-disciplinary applications in various sectors of business, education, and society
• a strong social skill set, the ability to work effectively as part of a team, leadership skills, and a strong sense of personal responsibility

Graduates in Electronics and Information Technology are highly sought after. Graduates can pursue professional opportunities in the following areas:

• Development, production, technical management, marketing components, operating systems and developing software in the field of electronics and information technology
• Conduct base-knowledge and application-oriented research at universities, research facilities, or at industrial companies.

The program provides you with a comprehensive understanding of the subject area as well as strong analytical thinking skills and technical expertise, allowing you to work across disciplines in all areas of business, administration, education, and society.

Graduates are in high demand across a wide range of sectors, including

• The Electronics and Semiconductor Sector: This would involve working on microchip development, for example, such as designing a new, highly integrated chip for automotive distance sensors which would include working on concept development, circuit design, and testing prototypes.
• Automotive Industry: You might be involved in developing control systems for electric vehicles, for example, such as a battery management system (BMS) to monitor and optimize the vehicle battery's charging and draining processes. Your responsibilities may include integrating sensors, programming control software, and/or conducting tests to ensure reliability.
• Communications Technology: Your role in this sector could involve conducting research into 5G and 6G technologies. Concrete examples include developing new signal processing algorithms to support higher data transmission rates and/or lower latency times, or to support security protocols in the field of wireless communication. You would be involved in designing, simulating and implementing algorithms, as well as conducting field tests.
• Medical Technology: Your career in medical technology could involve creating wearable health monitors. In practice, this could be designing a wearable ECG device to continuously monitor heart activity and send data to a mobile app. Your tasks would include designing the hardware, programming the firmware, and conducting clinical trials.
• Software Development: Software development could involve creating controlling software systems for industrial robots, including programming software to control an industrial robot's motions and functions on a production line. Your responsibilities may involve designing algorithms to plan movements, creating user interfaces, and/or conducting simulations and trial testing.
• AI Technologies: You could be involved in designing hardware and software for AI, for example, and specializing in applying AI and machine learning to both data and signals. You could program algorithms for automotive radar systems that will be able to determine if a cyclist, pedestrian, or a bus is in the way of a vehicle. You could work in the industrial sector, potentially improving system and machine repair and maintenance times (predictive maintenance), or work within the communications industry, applying AI to improve communications technology (5G, 6G).

On average, graduates of this degree program find a job immediately after graduation.