Computing techniques based on artificial intelligence have widespread applications in diagnostic systems, natural language understanding, protection against hacking and fraud, and robot systems. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making impact in business, healthcare, defence – in fact, wherever you look, AI is transforming the way the world works. This course will provide you with the skills, knowledge and practical experience you need for a career at the leading edge of technology. You will be taught by our leading researchers offering course units on subjects such as computer learning, intelligent agents, neural networks, bioinformatics, information security and computational finance.

The Department offers rigorous degree courses which will prepare you for a broad range of careers. Our graduates are highly employable – we rank third in the UK for graduate employability – and, in recent years, have entered many different computer science-related fields including software design and software engineering.