Program Overview

Course overview

Our Software Engineering degree aims to produce industry-ready graduates who have the knowledge, skills and experience to succeed. Our course structure encourages you to unleash your creative side by designing and prototyping user interfaces as well as sharpen your problem solving and analytical skills by writing code to develop software for multiple platforms. We harness current industry software tools and teach the latest techniques in software testing, deployment and overall management of projects. In parallel to studying these topics we aim for you to put these skills into practice by contributing to live projects and work placements throughout the programme.

Accredited by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered IT Professional.

Why study this course with us?

The Department of Computer Science is an innovative, forward-thinking department with a strong rate of student satisfaction and employability.

Our teaching material is kept at the cutting edge, and our techniques are extremely engaging, driven by real-world examples.

The course has an integrated year in industry where students will work in paid employment between years 2 and 3.

In addition to receiving tutoring, mentoring, guidance and support from our team, you may also experience events featuring industry professionals, or perhaps work on an extra-curricular project such as a Hackathon with your peers.

The Department is home to the Informatics Centre, a software development team where students are employed to work on commercial projects and who also designed this very programme.