Postgraduate Prospectus

During semester one, you will take compulsory modules in:

• Creative Problem Solving
• Finance and Accounting
• Introduction to Human Computer Interaction
• Project Management

During semester two, you will take compulsory modules in:

• Innovation Management
• Marketing for Entrepreneurs
• Science, Technology, Arts and Business
• Software Engineering

You will then have the option to take some of the following elective modules:

• Advanced Computer Architecture
• Advanced Computer Communications
• Advanced Data Structures
• Bioinformatics
• Collaboration and Communication Technologies
• Computer Graphics Applications
• Computer Vision
• Connected Computing at Scale
• Games
• Methods for Understanding Users in Computer Science
• Mobile Device Programming
• New Media Design
• Operations Research and Modelling
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Simulation for Computer Scientists
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Vision Systems and Applications

Please note that all module details are subject to change.

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 and may involve an outside company and will involve you working with others. 

The MSc 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.