Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics in Prague

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Faculty of Informatics and Statistics
Fakulta informatiky a statistiky Vysoké školy ekonomické
TypePublic
Established1991
Deanprof. Ing. Jakub Fischer, Ph.D.
Students2490[1]
Location
Prague
,
Czech Republic

50°05′03″N 14°26′28″E / 50.0842147°N 14.4411958°E / 50.0842147; 14.4411958
Websitefis.vse.cz

The Faculty of Informatics and Statistics (FIS VŠE) (

informatics, statistics, econometrics and other mathematical methods applied to business practice. The faculty has eight departments and several research laboratories, and hosts around 2,500 students across its programs.[2]

Departments

Departments of the faculty include:

  • Department of Demography (Czech: Katedra demografie; KDEM)[3]
  • Department of Econometrics (Czech: Katedra ekonometrie; KEKO)[4]
  • Department of Economic Statistics (Czech: Katedra ekonomické statistiky; KEST)[5]
  • Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering (Czech: Katedra informačního a znalostního inženýrství; KIZI)[6]
  • Department of Information Technologies (Czech: Katedra informačních technologií; KIT)[7] Research activities of the department focus on methodologies for development, operation and management of information systems.[8]
  • Department of Mathematics (Czech: Katedra matematiky; KMAT)[9]
  • Department of Multimedia (Czech: Katedra multimédií; KME)[10]
  • Department of Statistics and Probability (Czech: Katedra statistiky a pravděpodobnosti; KSTP)[11]
  • Department of Systems Analysis (Czech: Katedra systémové analýzy; KSA),[12] focusing on the application of principles of systems methodology and systems thinking into the fields of information systems, and business and management. Its main areas of research interest include: implementation of information systems within an organization, information management, strategic planning and business reengineering.[13]

Academics

The faculty offers Bachelor, Master and doctoral study programs.

Bachelor programs

Bachelor study programs are 3-3,5 years in length and conclude with a Bachelor State Examination and defence of a Bachelor thesis. Bachelor theses usually focus on practical topics.

  • Applied Informatics
  • Information Media and Services
  • Mathematical Methods in Economics, a program focusing on quantitative methods, and the inter-related fields of economics, business economics and mathematical methods.
  • Multimedia in Economic Practice
  • Socio-economic demography, a study program focused mainly on reproduction of human resources and human capital, covering topics from demography to social and economic policy.
  • Statistical Methods in Economics, a program focusing on applying statistical methods to real economics.
  • Statistics and Econometrics, a course focusing on statistics, various methods bordering economics and mathematics, econometric and mathematical modelling and informatics.

Master programs

Masters programs end with a Final State Examination and defence of a thesis. Available subjects are divided into Major and Minor:

Major

  • Business Informatics (distance learning)
  • Cognitive Informatics
  • Knowledge Engineering
  • Econometrics and Operation Research
  • Economic Demography
  • Information Management
  • Information Systems Management [14]
  • Information Systems and Technologies
  • Statistics

Minor

  • Analysis of Socioeconomic Data
  • Business Information Technology
  • Communication, Interpretation, Multimedia (for remote study)
  • Corporate Performance Management
  • Data Engineering
  • Demography and Social Analysis
  • Econometrics
  • Insurance Mathematics
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Multimedia Communication
  • Presentation and the Communication of the Information
  • Quantitative Methods in Management
  • Quantitative Methods for IT Students (for remote study)
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Security Management
  • Software Quality Management

Doctoral programs

Doctoral programs are usually at least three years long and conclude with the defence of a PhD thesis. Programs offered include Informatics, Econometrics and Operations Research, and Statistics.

Academic cooperation

The faculty cooperates with several academic and non-academic institutions, including

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Statistical Office
, and a number of foreign universities.

Gallery

  • Rajska building
    Rajska building
  • Rajska building (upper gallery)
    Rajska building (upper gallery)
  • Old building
    Old building

References

  1. ^ "Výroční zpráva o činnosti Fakulty informatiky a statistiky Vysoké školy ekonomické v Praze za rok 2019" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-12-25. Retrieved 2020-12-25.
  2. ^ "FIS Official Webpage".
  3. ^ Department of Demography website
  4. ^ Department of Econometrics website
  5. ^ Department of Economic Statistics website
  6. ^ Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering website
  7. ^ Department of Information Technologies website
  8. ^ "DIT Official Webpage". Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
  9. ^ Department of Mathematics website
  10. ^ Department of Multimedia website
  11. ^ Department of Statistics and Probability website
  12. ^ Department of Systems Analysis website
  13. ^ "DSA Official Webpage".[permanent dead link]
  14. ^ "ISM- new program".

External links

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