Master's Programme in Robotics and Control

Umeå University's Master's Programme in Robotics and Control is a two-year, 120-credit degree taught in English at the Umeå campus in northern Sweden. It is a genuine control-and-robotics engineering degree rather than a computer science course with robots attached: the first year covers artificial intelligence, control systems, mechatronics, machine vision and image processing, and the second year splits into an Electronics profile (control theory, sensor fusion, robotics applications) and a Computing Science profile (AI, machine learning, programming), before a 30-credit thesis.

The degree is awarded in Computing Science or Electronics with a specialisation in Robotics and Control, so graduates come out with a recognisable engineering main field rather than a niche label. The applied focus is on autonomous systems, field robotics and embedded systems — which is a natural fit for Sweden, where the robotics market is driven less by consumer products than by heavy industry: forestry machinery, mining equipment, construction automation and factory process control.

Tuition for non-EU students is SEK 152,300 a year, SEK 304,600 across the two years, with a first instalment of SEK 76,150 due around 10 May before the August start. There is also a SEK 900 application fee. That is roughly LKR 4.87 million a year — not cheap, but Swedish master's degrees are two years of research-grade engineering rather than a compressed taught year, and Umeå living costs are well below Stockholm's.

The entry requirements are precise and worth checking against your transcript before anything else. Umeå asks for a Bachelor's of at least 180 ECTS including 15 ECTS of computing science with at least 7.5 in programming, 7.5 ECTS of digital electronics, logic or system programming, 30 ECTS of mathematics covering analysis, linear algebra and statistics, and 7.5 ECTS in control theory, signal processing, numerical methods or differential equations. Sri Lankan graduates in Electronic, Electrical, Mechatronic or Computer Engineering from Moratuwa, Peradeniya, Ruhuna, SLIIT or an affiliated UK programme usually meet these — but the credit count is checked line by line, so submit full module descriptions.