Networking & Data Communications MSc

This course offers the knowledge and skills for designing, developing and operating secure IP-based networks. It offers practical skills in the specification, design, modelling and implementation of software and hardware. You will gain specialist knowledge of digital communications, multimedia communications, wireless networks and security issues. You will study the technologies of LTE and 5G wireless networks and the Internet of Things.

You can combine this course with management studies. The Management Studies pathway is ideal if you aspire to a management position in the industry.

The aims of the course are to:

• Provide knowledge, skills and a critical appreciation of the principles of data communications.
• Enable you to analyse a system and design an appropriate, custom solution.
• Develop subject-related practical skills.
• Provide you with the opportunities to develop written and oral communication skills.
• Prepare you for employment, research, further study and lifelong learning by developing your intellectual, problem-solving, practical and key (transferable) skills.

After you graduate

Former students work in management, engineering and computing roles in companies such as British Telecom (BT), IBM, Spotify, Meta, Inify Labs, public organisations such as the NHS, Digital Catapult, Rail delivery group, work as IT managers or consultants, or have become academics in the UK or internationally.