Why choose Herts?

• Industry Accreditations: Accredited by the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Chartered Institute for IT on behalf of the Engineering Council, enabling you to prepare for registration as a chartered engineer.
• Employment Prospects: Our graduates work as software engineers, developers and project managers for organisations including IBM and Microsoft.
• Work-Related Learning: You have an option to undertake a placement of up to one year conditional on course requirements. Placements may be paid or unpaid depending on the employer organisation.  Students have secured placements with organisations including Hewlett Packard, BT and Vodafone.

 

About the course

One of a range of degrees from the taught master's Programme in the Department of Computer Science.

 

This award is targeted at those who have a good Honours degree in computer science or a very closely related discipline, and who wish to extend and deepen their knowledge in two or more different sub-discipline areas. This course will enable you to enhance your career prospects or prepare for a programme of research that requires knowledge of one or more of these sub-discipline areas. You will have a wide range of taught modules from which to choose, and will be expected to complete a major project that extends and applies what you have learnt in one or more of the taught modules they have taken.