Course description
Key facts
-Overseas graduates of this MSc qualify for the UK Government Science and Engineering Graduate Scheme (SEGS) whereby students are allowed to work full-time in the UK for up to one year after their course finishes.
-The School of Computer Science and Information Technology received a Grade 5 in the last Research Assessment Exercise
Course Content
During semester one, you will take compulsory modules in:
-Creative Problem Solving
-Project Management
-Finance and Accounting
-Issues in Human Factors
You will then have the option to take one of the following elective modules:
-Algorithm Design and Operations Research
-Advanced Data Structures
During semester two, you will take compulsory modules in:
-Object Orientated Systems
-Software Engineering
-Science, Technology, Arts and Business
-Marketing for Entrepreneurs
-Innovation Management
In addition, you will choose one of the following optional modules:
-New Media Design
-User Interface Design
Over the summer period towards the end of the course, you will undertake an Entrepreneurship Project. This project will be based around a real commercial problem with substantial involvement in an outside company and involve you working with others.
Course Structure
The MSc in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship is offered on a full-time basis over one year or part-time over two to four years.
The course comprises 180 credits, split across 120 credits’ worth of compulsory and optional modules and a 60-credit entrepreneurship project.
The course combines three elements: lectures in business and industrial skills (60 credits); lectures in new technologies and professional practice (60 credits); and the application of these technologies to a proposed business model via a 60-credit summer project