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C COMPUTER SCIENCE TYPICAL OFFER BSc/BEng courses A-level: AAA IB: 37 Overall IELTS score of 6.0 (with no lower than 5.5 in any component), or recognised equivalent MEng courses A-level: A*AA IB: 38 Overall IELTS score of 6 (with no lower than 5.5 in any component), or recognised equivalent Please note that all courses except Computer Science (Human Computer Interaction) require A-level Mathematics or equivalent.
COURSE INFORMATION Computer Science BSc 3yrs, UCAS code G400
Computer Science MEng 4yrs, UCAS code G401 On this, our most popular and flexible course, you will receive a thorough grounding in the principles and practice of computer science, from hardware design, through software development and maintenance, to a wide range of application areas. To help with the choice of course units, we organise them into themes that focus studies and project work, allowing you to specialise in areas such as web and distributed systems, computer architecture, or information systems in business.
Software Engineering BSc 3yrs, UCAS code GG6K
Software Engineering MEng 4yrs, UCAS code GG64
YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED IN… Business and Management, Electrical, Electronic and Mechatronic Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
FIND OUT MORE www.manchester.ac.uk/cs ug.comp.sci@manchester.ac.uk Manchester saw the birth of the computer and introduced the Computer Science undergraduate degree. Today, we remain at the forefront of the discipline and offer some of the UK’s strongest undergraduate courses. We are also one of the UK’s largest computer science schools, giving us strength and depth across the discipline.
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH A YEAR IN INDUSTRY? All Computer Science courses can be taken with industrial experience. See the course index for UCAS codes, or contact ug.comp.sci@manchester.ac.uk for more details.
You will gain a thorough grounding in the general theory and practice of software development and maintenance, with particular emphasis on the development of large or mission-critical systems, and those intended for use in rapidly changing environments. You will cover topics relating to the software lifecycle, from finding out what the system is really supposed to do, to the production of a running system using modern tools for supporting parts of this process.
Artificial Intelligence BSc 3yrs, UCAS code G700
Artificial Intelligence MEng 4yrs, UCAS code G702 This course enables you to extend the study of general principles and practice of computer systems and software development, with the chance to examine some techniques of artificial intelligence. These tackle the problems of enabling a computer to interpret the world around it, learn and reason about what it perceives, and communicate with people and other computers about what the world is like and what it wants to do.
Computer Systems Engineering BEng 3yrs, UCAS code HH66