By the time Students have completed this Computer Science programme at Birkbeck, University of London, students will have gained an in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge of your chosen area of study, which students will be able to use in problem analysis, evaluation and application of technologies, and research into new technologies.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • This course will give students the research knowledge and skills they need to continue on to MPhil/PhD research.
  • Students will have the opportunity to undertake their research within an ongoing research project in the Department.
  • The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck is one of the longest-established computing departments in the UK, having celebrated our 60th anniversary. Students provide a stimulating teaching and research environment for both part-time and full-time students.
  • The Birkbeck Knowledge Lab draws on multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies from across the sciences, social sciences and arts, to investigate how digital technologies and digital information are transforming our culture and how we learn and work.
  • Students will have 24-hour access to several laboratories of networked PCs with a range of language compilers, database and other application software. College are connected, via the SuperJANET network, to the computers of other academic institutions in London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad.
  • In the Research Excellence Framework (REF), more than 75% of our research outputs in Computer Science were ranked world-leading or internationally excellent.