Start here
Where to go first, and — if you started before 2026-27 — what the curriculum change means for your courses.
| You are... | Go to |
|---|---|
| An applicant, sitting the entrance exam | Entrance exam |
| Moving to Delft for the first time | Arriving in Delft |
| A first-year (2026-27 onward) | Year 1 |
| A second-year | Year 2 |
| Picking electives (year 2 or 3) | Electives |
| A third-year doing the Research Project | Year 3 |
| Resitting a course that got replaced | Old Curriculum/Year 1/, Old Curriculum/Year 2/, Old Curriculum/Year 3/ |
Old vs New
TU Delft revised the CSE curriculum. Every course code changed, and some courses merged or vanished.
- New starts 2026-27 for Year 1, and 2027-28 for Years 2 and 3.
- Codes went from
CSE1305(4-digit) toCSE13C(year + quarter + slot). Projects areCSE100/CSE200/CSE300. - The Multimedia / Systems / Data variant tracks are abolished, replaced by 5 free electives (2 in year 2, 3 in year 3).
- Removed courses get extra exams for one more year after their last teaching. From September 2030, credits from old courses with no new equivalent stop counting toward your 180 EC.
Old Curriculum/ is a frozen snapshot of the pre-2026 programme. It exists for resits and for courses that were discontinued outright, and it is what this folder still holds. If you started in 2026-27 or later, you want Lightspace.
What changed, briefly
| Old | New | |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 12 courses, project in Q2 | 12 courses, project in Q4 |
| Year 2 | 7 core + 3 variant courses | 7 core + 2 electives |
| Year 3 | Minor + electives + Research Project | unchanged in shape |
| Gates | course prerequisites | adds SP Bootcamp and RP Bootcamp (week 3.5) |
Promoted to compulsory: Operating Systems, Computer Security. Demoted to elective: Computer Graphics. Merged: SQT + SEM → Software Design and Engineering; IDM + WDT(db) → Data Management. Discontinued with no successor: Digital Systems, Data Mining, Computational Intelligence, Collaborative AI, Algorithms for NP-Hard Problems, HCI.
Each course's README states its own status. Courses that changed identity carry a > Curriculum status banner in their LLM bundle.