British Computer Society
The School has been recognised for its academic excellence by the British Computer Society (BCS) who have accreditied almost all of the School's undergraduate programmes.
One of BCS's responsibilities under its Royal Charter is to develop and maintain standards in educational qualifications that provide an appropriate foundation for those who wish to follow a career in computing or information systems. As part of this responsibility the BCS undertakes a programme of visits to universities and other Higher Education Institutions to review computing degree courses and HNDs.
Courses can gain exemption from the BCS Professional Examinations thereby providing a route to Society Membership. Additionally, as a Nominated Body of the Engineering Council UK and the Science Council the BCS is licensed to accredit courses at Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and Chartered Scientist level.
The following School of Computing programmes have been ACCREDITED (i.e. granted exemption from the BCS exams):
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Computing Science part 1, part 2 and project
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Software Engineering part 1, part 2 and project
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Information Systems part 1, part 2 and project*
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Computer Games Technology part 1, part 2 and project**
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Internet Technologies part 1, part 2 and project**
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Business Information Technology and Multimedia part 1, part 2 and project
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Business Information Technology and e-Business part 1, part 2 and project*
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Media Technology part 1, part 2 and project
- BSc/BSc(Hons) Multimedia Systems part 1, part 2 and project
- PgD/MSc Information Technology with Oracle Application Development part 1and project
- PgD/MSc Advanced Computer Systems Development part 2 and project
- BSc Communication Technologies part 1
- BSc Computer Networking part 1
- BSc Computing Technology part 1
* if project of the engineering kind
** provisional (pending completion of first Honours cohort)