This programme imparts the understanding and skills to develop advanced software systems to professional standards. The programme has a flexible structure to suit graduates with a wide spectrum of degrees from those in IT to those with rather less academic computing content. The MSc covers core skills in Information Technology (IT) at MSc level while allowing students to study specialist advanced courses in topics such as animation, e-commerce, games programming, intelligent robotics and mobile computing and network applications. Graduates can expect to find employment with software houses, IT companies, research and development divisions of companies, financial services organisations, defence contractors or government IT agencies, and as researchers or research students within universities.

First destinations of some of our recent MSc graduates: Software Engineer, Ion Concept Systems Software Engineer, Logica PhD Computer Science,Heriot-Watt University IT Manager, NCS Database Administrator, Pension Fund Commission System Specialist, UBS AG (Bank) Test Engineer, IBM Systems Engineer, GEC Marconi Avionics Graduate Software Engineering, Thomson Marconi Sonar Ltd Computer Programmer, Bull Europe Software Consultant, Absoft Software Engineer, Thales (UK)