Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Computer Science

Accredited by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered IT Professional.

Accredited by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for Incorporated Engineer and partially meeting the academic requirement for a Chartered Engineer.

Throughout this course students will explore how computers work, how computer software is developed, how computers communicate with each other, and the ways in which software manipulates, stores and processes data. Students will work effectively in teams, working on diverse projects, which is the most important skill that employers require.

Studying Computer Science will take students from learning practical computing skills in programming, data management, hardware and networking to understanding and developing software solutions for many of the new challenges facing today’s computer-dominated world, such as safe online shopping, computer graphics, mobile app development and artificial intelligence.

The course is taught in dedicated labs, with high specification, regularly refreshed PCs and Macs. The University of Chester also provides remote access to most of the software used, and agreements with software vendors also allow students to download most of it to their own machines.

The Department is home to the Informatics Centre: a software development team where students are employed to work on commercial projects.