MSciComputer Science

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	4 years
Study language	English
Awards	MSci
Course code	G402

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher)

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 6.0 TOEFL (IBT): 76 CAE: B2 with 52+ CAE (from Jan 15): 169+

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided.

More information	essex.ac.uk/..tercourse=UG00069&subgroup=3

Overview

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Programme structure

Year 1

Professional Development
Mathematics for Computing
Introduction to Programming
Object-Oriented Programming
Introduction to Databases
Web Development
Network Fundamentals
Fundamentals of Digital Systems

Year 2

Group Project & Industrial Practice
Software Engineering
Application Programming
Data Structures and Algorithms
Databases and Information Retrieval (optional)
Human Computer Interfaces and Visualisation (optional)
Web Application Programming (optional)
Artificial Intelligence (optional)

Final year

Individual Project
Virtual Worlds (optional)
High-Level Games Development (optional)
Business Information Systems (optional)
Large Scale Software Systems and Extreme Programming (optional)
Network Engineering (optional)

Year 4

Professional Practice and Research Methodology
Group Project
Creating and Growing a New Business Venture (optional)
Computer Security (optional)
Intelligent Systems and Robotics (optional)
Machine Learning and Data Mining (optional)
Cloud Technologies and Systems (optional)
Text Analytics (optional)
High Performance Computing (optional)
E-Commerce Programming (optional)

Career opportunities

Essex graduates in computer science have found employment as systems analysts, software engineers, programmers and systems engineers, while a number go on to postgraduate study or research.

Our department has a large pool of external contacts, ranging from companies providing robots for the media industry, through vehicle diagnostics, to the transforming of unstructured data to cloud-based multidimensional data cubes, who work with us and our students to provide advice, placements and eventually graduate opportunities.

Our recent graduates have gone on to work for a wide range of high-profile companies including:

Formula One
Light Speed IT Solutions
IBM
Royal Bank of Scotland
Accenture
Google