Taught Conversion Master's programmes

• Computer Science - MSc

Taught Advanced Master's programmes

• Advanced Computer Science - MSc
• Advanced Computer Science (Computational Intelligence) - MSc
• Advanced Software Development - MSc
• Computer Security - MSc
• Future Computing - MSc
• Networks and Security - MSc

Taught IT and Business Master's programmes

• Computing and Entrepreneurship - MSc
• IT Consultancy - MSc

Taught Pre-Master's programmes

• Computer Science - GDip
• Computing - GDip

Taught Master's with other schools

• Information Security and Biometrics - PDip, MSc

Research programmes

• Computer Science - MSc, PhD

Our world-leading researchers, in key areas such as systems security, communications, computational intelligence and memory management, and in interdisciplinary work with biosciences and psychology, have earned us an outstanding result in the most recent national research assessment. In addition, two of our staff hold Royal Society Industrial Fellowships.
We provide an extensive support framework for our research students and encourage involvement in the international research community. As an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for programming education, the School of Computing is a leader in computer science teaching. We have the first British academic in 30 years to receive the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education. We are also home to two National Teaching Fellows, to authors of widely used textbooks and to award-winning teaching systems such as BlueJ.
While studying, you can gain work experience through our industrial placement scheme or with the Kent IT Clinic, which provides a project-based consultancy service to businesses in the region.
We have strong links with industry including Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle and are among the top ten in the UK for graduate employment prospects.

The School of Computing has a large range of equipment providing both UNIX (TM) and PC-based systems, and a wide variety of mobile devices, smart wireless sensors and digital field-survey equipment. In addition, we have a Field-Programmable Gate Array-based facility for experimenting with novel architectures for robotic and communications applications and a cluster facility consisting of 30 Linux-based PCs for parallel computation. New resources include a multi-core enterprise server with 128 hardware threads and a virtual machine server that supports computer security experiments.
All students benefit from a well-stocked library and a high bandwidth internet gateway. The School holds a series of regular seminars given by visiting speakers and our students are encouraged to attend.
Our taught postgraduate students enjoy a high level of access to academic staff and have their own dedicated laboratory and study room. Students whose course includes an industrial placement are supported by a dedicated team who help them gain a suitable position and who provide support throughout the placement.
Our full-time research students are offered funds for academic conference travel, to assist in publishing papers and getting involved in the international community. You have your own desk and PC/laptop in a research office, which is shared by other research students. We also provide substantial support, principally via one-to-one supervision of research students and well-integrated, active research groups, where you have the opportunity to test and discuss your ideas in a friendly environment. In your first year, you attend weekly workshops designed to develop your research and other skills, including teaching. You also go on an activity weekend at an outward-bound centre in the Kent countryside, where you will take part in team-building exercises designed to help you learn how to communicate effectively and work together to solve work-based problems.

Admissions enquiries
T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Subject enquiries
Course Administration Office,
School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 764000
E: (research programmes) computer-science@kent.ac.uk
E: (taught programmes) cs-msc-admissions@kent.ac.uk