Computer Science (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma) - 2012/2013 entry

This intensive programme in computing provides a good grounding for working in the information technology industry. As well as gaining a broad knowledge of computing, you will acquire programming skills and have the opportunity to investigate certain areas of current research more deeply.

• Designed for graduates of subjects other than computing who would like to embark on a career in IT.
• Also ideal if you are working in IT and want to update your skills and place them in a broader context while obtaining a formal qualification.

• Accredited as partially meeting the requirements for Chartered IT professional (CITP) by the British Computer Society.

Taught modules are supplemented by a substantial individual project that may be carried out in a ‘real-world’ setting.

Modules offered include:

• Computer Systems (with examples from UNIX/Linux)
• Programming in C++ 
• Fundamentals of Computing (including mathematics and data structures)
• Information Retrieval and Organisation
• Information Systems (and their development in an organisational context)
• Internet and Web Technologies 
• Object-Oriented Design and Programming using Java and C++
• Database and Knowledge Management

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 application development, software engineering, information systems management, consultancy and research. We regularly publish career-related information on our website.

• Find out more about the application process.

• Interviews February–September.
• As this degree is popular, earlier applications are more likely to be successful.