Industry links and employability

• The advent of Big Data tools in recent years has facilitated the large-scale mining of voluminous data, to allow actionable knowledge and understanding, known as Data Science. For instance, search engines can gain insights into how ambiguous a query is according to the querying and clicking patterns of different users. Data Science combines a thorough background in Big Data processing techniques, combined with techniques from information retrieval and machine learning, to permit coherent and principled solutions allowing real insights and predictions to be obtained from data.
• The programme includes a thorough grounding in professional software development, together with experience of conducting a development project. The programme will prepare you for a responsible position in the IT industry.
• The School of Computing Science has extensive contacts with industrial partners who contribute to several of their taught courses, through active teaching, curriculum development, and panel discussion. Recent contributors include representatives from IBM, J.P. Morgan, Amazon, Adobe, Red Hat and Bing.
• During the programme students have an opportunity to develop and practice relevant professional and transferrable skills, and to meet and learn from employers about working in the IT industry.