BSc Computing is about realising your ideas – from design, to development, to deployment. You’ll learn skills identified by industry as critical to the computing sector, including computational thinking, software development, problem solving, user experience design (UX) and co-creation. These themes underpin the course, and are spotlighted in the Innovation Lab – a collaborative ideas space that reflects a professional tech studio. Here, you'll build commercial products and experiences that address a gap in the market, while receiving invaluable feedback and advice from entrepreneurs and industry specialists.

Across the course, you work to develop high-end portfolio pieces designed to showcase your talents to potential future employers or clients. You'll gain first-hand knowledge of the computing sector through specialist lectures and our industry-insight events, and enjoy support from tutors who interact regularly with the South West creative tech scene.

Work placements, industry links and internships

We strive to get good students with good ideas in front of good companies.

We collaborate with various digital agencies and tech companies across Bath, Bristol and beyond. Our students are invited to collaborate with the creative industries, which includes staff-led research work and commissions. You may also draw upon our networks to help secure work placement and internship opportunities.

A small selection of our contacts and collaborators include:

• IBM Watson
• Bristol Virtual Reality Lab
• Pervasive Media Studio
• Complete Control
• Create Studios
• TechSpark
• Network N

We also invite you to come and talk to us about the fantastic placement schemes offered by Bath Spa University, including our Summer Placement Scheme and Professional Placement Year.

Careers for Computing graduates are numerous and varied, and include (among many others):

• Software engineering
• Web and mobile application development
• System design and administration
• E-commerce
• IT consultancy
• Digital product development
• Start-up / incubator programmes
• Graduate schemes in a number of IT related fields
• Further study (Master's, Doctoral and PGCE)
• Teacher Training (Primary Computing / Secondary Computing).