MSc in Advanced Computer Science

Gain the in-depth specialist knowledge and skills you need to thrive in one of the fastest moving industries in the world on this British Computer Science-accredited Masters.

You’ll advance your technical skills and expertise, taught within our industry-standard facilities. Learn specialist computational concepts, programming techniques and fundamental theories. And put your knowledge into practice, designing applications and developing real software.

Computer science has increasing influence on our lives and the demand for highly skilled practitioners in this dynamic sector continues to grow.

About this course

Be a part of the technological breakthroughs of today that will shape the way we live tomorrow.

Enhance your core computer science skills with practical learning in our state-of-the-art computer labs, working with the latest software such as Visual Studio Enterprise Edition. Take part in live programming and problem-solving workshops, creating software solutions. And choose from a range of topics to suit your career interests such as artificial intelligence (AI), multiple reality, real-time graphics, web-connected systems and robotics.

You’ll consider the importance of ethics for practising computer scientists. And benefit from our strong industry links with organisations such as IBM, Microsoft and Jaguar Land Rover. Our Rather Useful Seminar series features guest talks by experts from across industry.

Boost your CV by taking part in our other extra-curricular opportunities including hackathons and competitions like the Global Game Jam, UK and Ireland Programming Competition and Three Thing Game.

This programme supports students with various levels of computing and programming practice experience but is particularly suited to those experienced in writing code at undergraduate level.

A minimum 2:2 Bachelor Honours (or international equivalent) in Computer Science or Software Engineering with at least 40 credits (or equivalent) of a high-level objected oriented programming language such as Java, C++ or C#.