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

Our technological world has created a tremendous demand for professionals who can design, build and maintain computer courses, databases. This four-year Year in Industry course with a specialism in software engineering will give you a strong foundation of knowledge, skills and practical experience to kickstart your career in software. Your extended work placement will give you skills and awareness that can only be acquired in a real work environment, and will help to set you apart when you apply for jobs.

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, Small Enterprise Team Project, Operating Systems, Databases, Algorithms and Complexity and others; Year 3: Year in Industry; Year 4: Individual Project, User-Centred Design. Optional modules: Year 2: Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Methods for Computer Science, Computer and Network Security; Year 4: Computational Finance, Intelligent Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Data Visualisation and Exploratory Analysis 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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