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Overview
We offer four taught masters (MSc) programmes, with a flexible, modular curriculum, allowing you to tailor your masters program to your particular interests.
Our courses
Course Structure
We offer around 50 courses at masters level, grouped into the following specialist areas:
- Analytical and Scientific Databases
- Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology
- Cognitive Science
- Computer Systems, Software Engineering & High-Performance Computing
- Informatics and Economics
- Intelligent Robotics
- Knowledge Management, Representation and Reasoning
- Learning from Data
- Music Informatics
- Natural Language Processing
- Neural Computation and Neuroinformatics
- Theoretical Computer Science
All successful candidates will enrol on our taught MSc programme in September. Full time students spend the first nine months participating in a series of taught modular courses, typically involving attendance at four to six lectures a week, with a range of additional tutorials and laboratory sessions dependant on your course choice.
These courses can be assessed in a variety of ways, although are likely to involve some combination of coursework assignment submissions, an end of year examination and self-conducted background reading.
Students spend the final three months of the course concentrating on a major individual research dissertation, supported by an academic supervisor. The final dissertation contributes towards a third of your overall degree.
The course is also available part-time, over three years.
Flexibility is a key aspect of our degree, encouraging students to choose from a wide range of courses delivered, taught both within and outwith the Informatics subject area. Students will be given unlimited access to a specialist area advisor who can help with the construction of a viable selection of compatible courses.
Detailed information, including timetables, lecture notes, past exam papers and examples of previous student dissertations, is available on the MSc course website.
Related Masters Programmes
We also collaborate on the following MSc programmes:
- MSc in High Performance Computing
- MSc in Speech and Language Processing
- MSc in Informatics (at the British University in Dubai)
This article was published on Dec 9, 2011