Course summary
- Prepare for the degree with an extra foundation year at the start.
- Become a highly motivated and competent specialist with a substantial theoretical and practical skillset.
- Gain the skills to design a computer network infrastructure, administer, manage and maintain computer network systems which meet the needs of organisations.
Computer networks provide the supporting infrastructure for the global internet. National and international businesses as well as home users need computer networks to function securely, efficiently and cost effectively.
You will learn the theory and technical skills to be able to graduate as a network engineering specialist, ready for a career as a developer, designer, manager or administrator of these highly complex networked systems.
Future careers
This Computer Networks with Foundation Year (Honour) programme from Sheffield Hallam University prepares you for a career as a:
- applications support analyst
- business consultant
- data storage manager
- information security manager
- infrastructure engineer
- IT engineer
- IT solutions analyst
- network engineer
- sales
- support specialist
- security analyst
- service desk analyst
- software developer
- software engineer
- system administrator
- technical support engineer
- web developer
- with many now working in senior management roles or as directors of their own companies.
