Computer Science (MRes) - 2012/2013 entry

This is an advanced postgraduate degree offering a supervised research project. Students also take a module on research methods in computer science and information systems, as well as three other taught modules.

By the time you have completed this programme, you will have gained an in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge of your chosen area of study, which you will be able to use in problem analysis, evaluation and application of technologies, and research into new technologies.

• Gain the necessary foundations for continuing onto a PhD/MPhil degree.
• Have the opportunity of undertaking your research within ongoing research projects in the department.

Full-time students undertake a one-year supervised research project, and also take a module on research methods in computer science and information systems, together with three taught modules.

Part-time students undertake a supervised research project over two years, plus a research methods module and three taught modules.

You select modules appropriate to your chosen research area from:

• Advances in Data Management
• Component-Based Software Development
• Computational Intelligence and Visualisation
• Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• Image-Based Information Processing
• Information Retrieval 
• Intelligent Technologies
• Internet and Web Technologies
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• Search Engines and Web Navigation
• Semantic Web.                                                                 

Please note: not all of the above modules may be offered each year. Selections are subject to approval by the programme director.

You will have 24-hour access to several laboratories of networked PCs with a range of language compilers, database and other application software. We are connected, via the SuperJANET network, to the computers of other academic institutions in London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad.

If you are interested in further research, we offer a PhD/MPhil in Computer Science and Information Systems.

Graduates go on to careers in software engineering, information systems management, consultancy or research. We regularly publish career-related information on our website.

• Find out more about the application process.

• Interviews from February.