Computer Science (Software Engineering) MSci at Royal Holloway, University of London

Specialise in software engineering to work towards a career building large-scale industrial software systems. There’s a global demand for skilled professionals who can design, build and maintain complex software systems that behave and interact as intended, reliably and securely. This four-year course at Royal Holloway gives you a thorough foundation in modern methodologies and industrial-strength tooling so that you are immediately employable.

Department: Computer Science  |  Duration: 4 years full time  |  Study mode: full-time (integrated master's)  |  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, Small Enterprise Team Project, Operating Systems, Databases, Algorithms and Complexity and others; Year 3: Individual Project, User-Centred Design; Year 4: MSci Team Project. Optional modules: Year 2: Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, Multi-dimensional Data Processing; Year 3: Computational Finance, Intelligent Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Machine Learning, Applications of Cryptography, Critical Infrastructure Security and others; Year 4: Data Analysis, Online Machine Learning, Data Visualisation and Exploratory Analysis, Advanced Distributed Systems, Large Scale Data Storage and Processing and others.

Career pathways

Our MSci graduates are highly employable, with a depth of knowledge and practical skills that set them apart from BSc students. After four years of studying you will be confident at developing large and complex systems, working with all kinds of cutting-edge software, solving technical problems, managing projects, writing reports, and analysing complex information.

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