Students are helped to obtain suitable places and the School has excellent links with over 50 companies such as British Telecom, Kainos and Nortel in Belfast, IBM in England, Fujitsu in Japan and Siemens in Germany. Analysis and Applications Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering project Multimedia Image Processing Neural Networks Database Technology enable each student to pursue his or her own interests. A student who is fluent in French may spend the final year of study at the University of Rennes and take the final examinations in the French language. This is a four-year Extended degree course. It has been established to provide a supply of particularly well qualified graduates who will become industry leaders, and it will have an appropriate blend of knowledge and skills in Computer Science with business practice and management.
Students have the option of undertaking a year gaining Professional Experience in industry.
The first two years are common with the BSc course. Transfer from the BSc course to the MEng course is possible for selected students at the end of Level 2, subject to satisfactory performance. Networks link the School and university computers to powerful machines in Great Britain. The University Computer Services provide a central computing service, including Open Access, on the campus. Since 1987, the BSc Honours degree in Computer Science has been accredited by the British Computer Society for exemption from both parts of the BCS examinations.