Training future IT professionals in Germany

Abstract

The article focuses on training IT professionals in German higher education system. Two models of educational standards for the IT training have been outlined and described: the professional and the modular. On analyzing the academic content IT curriculum at Rhine-Westphalian Technical Aachen University, it was revealed that training IT professionals in Germany differs from the one in Ukraine in terms of complete modularization of the interdisciplinary-based curriculum with the ratio of 1:1:1 between general professional courses, major courses and practical training. Among others, Computer Science program at RWTH Aachen combines engineering and IT industry, which allows students to gain early hands-on experience.