Objectives* You will be part of a small and friendly department within the School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics where class sizes are small enough that you know your lecturers by name;
* We have one of the largest astronomy research groups in the UK and students conduct research projects supervised by scientists and mathematicians in the School ;
* Students have exceptional one-year placement opportunities in the UK and abroad;
* Our Bayfordbury Observatory is regarded as one of the finest teaching observatories in the country. The observatory site also hosts the new Science Learning Centre East of England;
* In the National Student Survey (14th September 07) we came at the top of the national scales for overall student satisfaction in the Physics/Astronomy subject area;
* We are ranked 8th for Physics in the Guardian University guide 2008 http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2008 (http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2008/), with top scores for our student-staff ratio (10/10), employment prospects (9/10) and value-added (10/10).
Entry requirementsThe university requires you to have at least 2 A Levels (or equivalent) to begin an Honours Undergraduate Degree Programme or at least one for a Foundation Degree. The entry requirements for undergraduate degrees are given generally in UCAS Tariff Points.
Academic titleBSc Astrophysics with Scientific Computing
Course descriptionBSc Astrophysics with Scientific Computing
-Applied Numerical Analysis
-Boundary Value Problems
-Computational Physics
-Cosmology and Large Scale Structure
-Nonlinear Systems
-Physics of Stars
-Project - (Physics)
-Quantum Computing
-Waves and Fluids