The University's School of Computer Science is one of the largest of its kind in the UK, and one of the most established. It has educated thousands of students since the 1960s, laying the foundations for them to go on learning new skills throughout their careers. The school offers a wide range of courses, which blend academic excellence with vocational relevance.

Previous graduates have gone to work in a variety of roles both at management level and at the technical level with companies such as Accenture, Sun Microsystems, Cisco CCNA, Oracle OCA, IBM, Xerox,Yell.