ADVANCED COMPUTING*

MSc

This is a taught postgraduate course aimed at students with a substantial background in computing who want to study advanced computing concepts and technologies, and cover a variety of topics in depth taught by dedicated experts.

The MSc Advanced Computing degree provides you with a wealth of opportunities to choose your own route of specialisation into a computing career. The course includes four core modules (Dissertation and Research Skills, Topics in Emerging Technologies, DevOps, Managing Projects and Teams) and three optional modules from a range offered in artificial intelligence, cyber security and software development.

Core modules will cover aspects that are common across all subdomains of computing, whereas optional modules will include a choice of topics helping you specialise in an area of your preference (cyber security, software development, artificial intelligence). The programme is suitable for students from computing backgrounds who are interested in a career orientated towards an industry role or academia.

Students on the course will have access to library resources, online books, subscriptions to IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Library, and other related publications. They will also have access to industry-standard cloud tools for computing (TryHackMe, Hack The Box).

The course blends theoretical and practical sessions and uses facilities at the DigiTech Centre, Adastral Park, including the cyber security suite, the network embedded systems labs, the data science and AI labs and the on-campus IT suites.