BScComputer Science (Including Placement Year)

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, sandwich
Nominal duration	4 years
Study language	English
Awards	BSc
Course code	G400

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=1

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
Human Computer Interfaces and Visualisation (optional)
Web Application Programming (optional)
Artificial Intelligence (optional)
Robotics (optional)
Computer Game Design (optional)
Computer Game Programming (optional)
C++ Programming (optional)
Computer and Data Networks (optional)

Final year

Individual Project
Advanced Programming (optional)
Languages and Compilers (optional)
Evolutionary Computation and Genetic Programming (optional)
Intelligent Agents (optional)
Natural Language Engineering (optional)
Mobile Robotics (optional)
Virtual Worlds (optional)
Large Scale Software Systems and Extreme Programming (optional)
Network Engineering (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