Software Engineering with a Year in Industry

You will learn how to design and deliver innovative solutions to real‑world problems, while exploring high‑demand areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, data science, software engineering, and mobile app development.

Our programme is shaped by industry input and delivered by experts working at the forefront of their fields. Your lecturers include BAFTA‑nominated game developers, leading cyber security specialists, and researchers collaborating with organisations such as Airbus, Microsoft, HSBC, and Siemens. Throughout the course you will learn in state‑of‑the‑art laboratories, work alongside your peers on practical projects, and present your work to industry partners at our annual Project Fair.

Whether you’re interested in building cloud‑based systems, developing accessible apps, exploring Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, or creating software that doesn’t exist yet, you will graduate with a strong portfolio that showcases your abilities, and the confidence to apply them in the workplace.

This programme includes opportunities to undertake a Semester or Year Abroad, enhancing your learning and offering invaluable life experience.

This course also offers you the opportunity to spend a Year in Industry, in the UK or overseas, enabling you to gain valuable workplace experience. The University advocates for paid-only placements, which on average have a salary of over £20,000. Unpaid placements are considered on a case-by-case basis.

In Year 1, you will typically study areas including: Data Representation & Computer Architecture; Programming & Software Engineering 1; Year 1 Placement Preparation; Introduction to Data Science; Professional Issues, Security & Digital Technology; Programming & Software Engineering 2; Modelling Computing Systems.

In Year 2, you will typically study areas including: Placement Preparation: Science Industrial Year; Declarative Programming ; Software Engineering; Database Systems; Algorithms; Software Engineering 2; Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
Concurrency; Software Security Engineering; Web Service Development.

In Year 3: Year spent in Industry.

In Year 4, you will typically study areas including: Software Engineering Project Planning and Management; Software Engineering Project Implementation and Dissertation; Software Engineering Project Specification and Development; Software Testing; Writing Mobile Apps; Critical Systems; Big Data and Machine Learning; Web Application Development; Invention and Innovation in Computing; Cryptography and IT-Security; User Experience.

We are proud to provide an outstanding educational experience, using the most effective learning and teaching approaches, carefully tailored to suit the specific needs of your course. Apart from a small number of online-only courses, most of our courses consist of in-person, on-campus teaching, enabling full engagement with your lecturers and fellow students. Practical skills sessions, lab work seminars, and workshops predominantly take place in person, allowing for group working and demonstrations. We also operate virtual labs and Simulated Learning Environments which will facilitate greater access to training opportunities in the future. However, our approach also includes the use of some online learning to support and enhance traditional face-to-face teaching. Online learning may take place ‘live’ using software such as Zoom, allowing you to interact with the lecturer and other students and to ask questions. Lecture recordings also allow for more flexibility to revisit material, to revise for assessments and to enhance learning outside of the classroom. Some modules have extra resources in Canvas, such as videos, slides and quizzes enabling further flexible study. This course may offer some modules taught through the medium of Welsh or bilingually for students who consider themselves to be fluent Welsh speakers. For more details on the provision available see the Welsh Provision expander below.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• British Computer Society