Why choose Herts?

• Industry Accreditation: Accredited by the British Computer Society (BCS) enabling graduates to register at The Chartered Institute for IT as a chartered IT professional.
• Work placement opportunities: You will have a one-year paid?placement. Previous students have worked for organisations including Apple, Intel and Microsoft.
• Employment prospects: Graduates work as business analysts, consultants, software engineers, and application developers for organisations including Capgemini, Optoma Technology and Ocado.

 

What job can I get?

Our master's programme is designed to give Computer Science graduates the specialist, up-to-date skills and knowledge sought after by employers, whether in business, industry, government or research.

 

This MSc develops students’ practical skills of producing models of software engineering processes and artefacts using appropriate modelling techniques, and applying measures to software engineering processes and artefacts and use the data produced to evaluate software engineering activities.

 

Successful graduates can pursue a career in software engineering as a project manager, software engineer or developer of large-scale systems.

 

Work placement

The 'with placement' programmes give you additional industrial experience by applying the skills you have learned throughout your studies. They offer you the opportunity to work for one year in a highly professional and stimulating environment. You will be a full time employee in a company earning a salary and will learn new skills that can't be taught at University. During the placement, you will be able to gain further insight into industrial practice that you can take forward into your individual project.

 

We will provide excellent academic and personal support during both your academic and placement periods together with comprehensive career guidance from our very experienced dedicated Careers and Placements Service.

 

Although the responsibility for finding a placement is with you, our Careers and Placements Service maintains a wide variety of employers who offer placement opportunities and organise special training sessions to help you secure a placement, from job application to the interview. Optional one-to-one consultations are also available.

 

The 'with placement' degrees are available with our September intake only. You enter the university in September and study 120 credits of taught modules until May of the following year. You then enter industry and begin your one year placement period returning to the University a year later to complete your project.

 

In order to qualify for the placement period you must maintain an overall average pass mark of not less than 60% across all modules studied in semester ‘A’.