About The School
The School of Computing is one of seven Schools in the University.
In terms of an overall perspective taking into account its student population, research income, number of programmes and modules supported, and University space occupied - the School of Computing can also be viewed as the largest School in the University.
The practical emphasis of the programmes of study is aimed at ensuring that students are ready for employment on graduation. The School's research and consultancy thrusts are also mainly directed to be relevant to the productive economy where many of the key challenges are multi-disciplinary in nature.
The 60 academic staff within the School deliver a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to its 1100 students including:
- computing
- software engineering
- multimedia technology
- computer games technology
- computer networking
- internet technologies
- information technology (IT)
- e-business
- business IT
Combined with our staff expertise and purpose built laboratories, that house some of the latest hardware and software, we're confident we've got a winning formula.
Overall, the School of Computing has been recognised in a number of external reviews to have considerable strengths. These have been documented as:
- Academic programmes which are relevant, responsive, rigorous, respected and focused;
- Academic programmes which are influenced strongly by the research and consultancy interests of staff;
- Academic programmes which reflect the wider economic and societal changes (e.g. the devolved political situation in Scotland);
- Academic programmes which respond to and anticipate major global changes in economic relations (e.g. Trade, Finance, Employment, the New Economy, E-Business);
- A strong and diverse research base;
- A respected group of academic staff, who are well-qualified and experienced, and acknowledged by external peers, in research and in near-market consultancy and commercial activities, both in the public as well as the private sectors of the economy.
"... the enthusiasm and positive attitude of both staff and students was apparent and there was a general commitment on the part of the staff to improving the teaching and learning process ..."
The School of Computing is accredited by Microsoft as well as Cisco and Adobe.
These global companies acknowledge the very high standard of our academic staff expertise that you can benefit from through choosing a computing programme at the University.
