Description of the Department

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The Department of Informatics is the 18th chronologically establishment Department of the University of Thessaly. The Department operates from the academic year 2013-1014.

The Department has as its founding mission (Presidential Decree) the cultivation and development of computer science and its applications, as well as training of scientists for staffing services of public and private entity.

The Degree of the Department is considered equivalent to each consequence and corresponding with the Bachelor of the other Computer Science Departments of Universities.

History

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Τhe Department came from the renaming of the Department of Mathematics-Informatics of the University of Thessaly (which had been founded by Presidential Decree 177/1993) and the transfer of its headquarters from Larisa in Lamia. The Department accepted for the first time enrollments in the academic year 2013-2014.