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 have an optional one-year industry placement. Previous graduates have worked for organisations including Hewlett Packard, BT, and Vodafone.
- Employment Prospects: Graduates work as Business and IT Analysts, HR system managers, and IT managers for organisations including Google, Parker Hannifin, and Kellkoo.
Professional Accreditations
Accredited by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for the purposes of fully meeting the further learning academic requirement for registration as a Chartered IT Professional.
About the course
One of a range of degrees from the taught Masters Programme at the School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science our course is especially designed for graduates of numerate subjects other than computer science. It is mostly taught separately from the other courses. It intensively covers a broad range of the key principles and techniques of computer science.Why choose this course?
- This MSc is one of a range of advanced courses within our postgraduate masters programme in Computer Science, this particular course provides you with a specialism in software engineering.
- You will develop knowledge and skills in the models, methodologies, measures and tools that can be employed in software development considered as an engineering discipline.
- You will be taught by a highly-regarded and long-established computer science department with strong links to business.
- Computer Science saw 90% of its research ranked as world-leading (Research Excellence Framework, 2022).
What will I study?
Classes consist of lectures, small group seminars, and practical work in our well-equipped laboratories. We use modern, industry-standard software wherever possible. There are specialist facilities for networking and multimedia and a project laboratory especially for masters students. In addition to scheduled classes, you will be expected a significant amount of time in self-study, taking advantage of the extensive and up-to-date facilities. These include the Learning Resource Centres, open 24x7, with 1,500 computer workstations and wifi access, Studynet our versatile online study environment usable on and off campus, and open access to our labs.
Level 7Module compulsory
- Operating Systems and Networks
- Computer Architectures
- Programming and Program Design
- Computer Science Masters Project
- Legal and Ethical Practice Exercise
- Software Development Exercise
- Multi-User Database Systems
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