The demand for graduates with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to analyse, design, develop, test, and maintain modern computer systems is high. Organisations rely on the use of computers for information processing and problem solving so the industry requires specialists to create, understand and further advance Cyber Security.
Students will:
- Gain a full degree in three years of part-time study.
- Study one day per week, with the remaining four days in employment.
- Address the advances in cybersecurity through an in-depth understanding of IT security, hacking, forensics, and the future and emerging technologies associated with this rapidly changing field.
- Have opportunities to undertake real-life projects, preparing you for work within the industry.
- Have opportunities to build and configure computer and networked systems, as well as the necessary support systems.
- Explore the issues associated with managing these types of systems and in particular the necessary aspects of network security.
- Apply the knowledge and professional skills developed within the programme to their workplace.
- *Study a course that is part of a subject area rated 3rd in the UK and 1st in Wales for satisfaction with teaching, and 2nd in the UK and 1st in Wales for satisfaction with the course in the Computer Science and Information Systems subject league tables, The Guardian University Guide 2022.
- *Study a course that is part of a subject area rated joint 2nd in Wales for teaching quality and 4th in UK for student experience in the Computer Science subject league tables, Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022.