Drawing on the School’s international research reputation, you will have the opportunity to select from a broad range of advanced modules to reflect your own interests. You will also undertake your own software-development or summer project (which may be research-focused) to deepen your knowledge even further. It is essential preparation for a career in academic or industrial research.

In the first eight months of the course you study your choice of taught modules to a total of 120 credits, which may include a mini-project. In the final four months, you will work on your summer project and dissertation, individually supervised by a member of the research-active staff in the school.

Why study Advanced Computer Science Masters/MSc at Birmingham

• Birmingham is one of the leading universities in the country for postgraduate study in computer science, and we are proud to deliver outstanding programmes that offer a range of exciting career opportunities for students from around the world.
• State-of-the-art, multi-million-pound facilities include dedicated laboratories for Computer Science students, and research laboratories for Security, Medical Imaging, Intelligent Robotics, and Computer Vision.
• We are a partner in The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.
• Our Security and Privacy Group is recognised as an EPSRC/GCHQ Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research and we have a strong collaboration with the Centre for Computational Biology (CCB).

Our graduates find themselves in a variety of environments within academia, research, industry, government and private organisations. The following is a short list of research and vocational areas:

• Software Engineering: developing methods for producing software systems on time, within budget and with few or no defects
• Software Applications: applying computing and technology to solving problems outside the computer field, eg, in education or medicine
• Computer/Cyber Security: covers all the processes and mechanisms by which computer-based equipment, information and services are protected from unintended and unauthorised access, change or destruction
• Artificial Intelligence: developing computers that simulate human learning and reasoning ability
• Information Technology: developing and managing information systems that support a business or organisation
• Theoretical Computer Science: investigating the fundamental theories of how computers solve problems and applying the results to other areas of computer science
• Operating Systems and Networks: developing the basic software computers use to organise themselves or to communicate with other computers