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Studying in the School of Computer Science
Why not come and study with us? We are community of about 700 taught students and 140 staff and research students. We are one of the leading departments of Computer Science in the UK, with internationally excellent research and outstanding facilities for teaching. We currently hold over £6m in research grants and collaborate with over 40 different companies in research and teaching, including many multinationals. We also run the UK's oldest, and most successful, conversion M.Sc in Computer Science. This attracts up to 150 students a year from around the world. |
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Teaching
We offer four single honours undergraduate programmes and eight joint honours programmes. The four single honours programmes are:
- MEng/BEng Computer Science/Software Engineering
- BSc Computer Science
- BSc Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
- BSc Computer Science with Business Management
Our teaching has been given the highest ratings in the most recent (2003) review by the UK Quality Assurance Agency. Our degrees are accredited by the British Computer Society (BCS), and the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE). The MEng programme meets the requirements laid down by the Engineering Council.
We also offer several postgraduate degrees:
- MSc Natural Computation
- MSc Computer Science --- a conversion degree for graduates of another subject.
- MSc Advanced Computer Science
- PhD/MPhil in Computer Science or Cognitive Science
Facilities
We occupy an outstanding new building with state of the art facilities including one networked workstation for every three students, a wireless network, a robotics laboratory, two high-speed compute clusters, a library and study areas, and a student common room.
Careers
- We have strong links to industry. Our industrial collaborators include: Qinetiq, BT, Honda, Thales, Marconi, Severn Trent Water, Pro Enviro among others.
- We house a number of centres for research or technology transfer from which our students benefit.
- We have world class research groups, and this research informs much of our teaching in the final year.
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