Computer Science (Cyber Security) with a Year in Industry BSc at Royal Holloway, University of London

Our Year in Industry course with a specialism in cyber security will give you a strong foundation of knowledge, skills and practical experience to kickstart your career. Your work placement in year 3 will give you skills and awareness that can be refined in a real work environment and will help to set you apart when you apply for jobs. The creation, transmission and storage of huge volumes of electronic data is one of the defining features of our age.

Department: Computer Science  |  Duration: 4 years full time  |  Study mode: full-time with placement/study-abroad year  |  Location: Egham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core modules: Year 1: Object Oriented Programming I, Object Oriented Programming II, Programming laboratory, Internet Services, Mathematical Structures and others; Year 2: Software Engineering, Team Project, Operating Systems, Databases, Algorithms and Complexity and others; Year 3: Year in Industry; Year 4: Security Management, Applications of Cryptography, Full Unit Project (Information Security). Optional modules: Year 2: Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, Multi-dimensional Data Processing; Year 4: Computational Finance, Intelligent Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Machine Learning, Critical Infrastructure Security, Digital Forensics and others.

Career pathways

Our Year in Industry degrees are highly valued by employers, because they give you the chance to gain first-hand experience of the world of work and to apply your learning to real world scenarios. Students have often been offered permanent jobs in the same company at the end of their placements, to take up after their graduation.

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