If students already have experience of working in the IT industry, the Information Technology programme at Birkbeck, University of London provides opportunities for broadening and deepening students knowledge and skills; if students do not have previous experience, it provides a platform for a career in the IT industry.
Students will reach an advanced level of understanding of computers, computing, software development, and how to design and implement software systems. The programme also covers the use of information systems in organisations, and the management of IT and information systems, and students will gain skills and knowledge in problem analysis, evaluation of technology options, systems development, technology-driven organisational change and technology-based innovation.
Highlights
- Provides a foundation for continuing on to an MPhil/PhD programme in information systems or technology management.
- 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.
- The Birkbeck Knowledge Lab draws on multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies from across the sciences, social sciences and the arts, to investigate how digital technologies and digital information are transforming our culture and how we learn and work.
- In the Research Excellence Framework (REF), more than 75% of our research outputs in Computer Science were ranked world-leading or internationally excellent.
- Recognised by the British Computer Society: CITP (partial fulfilment) with the condition that students do system implementation projects.
