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Discover our Computer Science Master's Degree Course

Our postgraduate MSc course combines high-quality teaching with a stimulating research environment to provide students with the expertise, skills, and perspective for a fulfilling career.

Our programme attracts motivated students from a variety of academic backgrounds, ranging from current undergraduates to technical professionals with substantial experience in a professional environment.

Regardless of your background, or whether you are coming from the UK or overseas, we think that you will find our research environment to be intellectually stimulating and filled with opportunities.

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Computer Science Master's Degree

This is a 1-year course focusing on advanced technical areas to provide a firm basis for future success in science or industry.

From September 2026, we’ll be enhancing our MSc by introducing specialisms that tailor your degree to your strengths, research interests, and career ambitions.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning:

The specialism will offer foundational and advanced modules in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, giving the student the tools to understand, design and deploy cutting edge AI for a variety of real-world applications.

Cyber Security:

This specialism covers both foundational and advanced areas of cybersecurity, including security principles, cryptography, software security, hardware security, network security and web security. Emphasis is placed on a practical, hands-on approach, enabling students to understand how security systems are compromised in real-world contexts and to develop the skills required to design and build more secure systems.

Data Analytics:

This specialism offers a comprehensive study of Data Analytics, from foundational principles to advanced techniques. Students will learn practical, computational skills to manage the entire data lifecycle - from collection and visualisation to interpretation and modelling - enabling them to gain actionable insights and build data-driven solutions for real-world challenges.

The course page below provides an overview of the course - including entry requirements, modules, assessment, and teaching (subject to final approval), how to apply as well as information about fees and funding.

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Information regarding our degree course accreditation can be found here.

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What can I do with a Master's in computer science?

The research focus of our courses means that you will develop a rigorous understanding of scientific principles alongside a breadth of technical skills, making them suited to industry and scientific research.

We have excellent relationships with leading international organisations in industry and academia. In addition to sustaining excellent student employability, we regularly utilise these relationships in our taught degrees, providing students with experience of real-world problems and exposure to leading professionals in science, technology, engineering, finance and government.

Popular industries for our graduates include:

Consultancy
Defence
Finance
Technology

The advanced nature of our courses allows you to take up senior positions within these industries at an early stage of your career.

Aside from industry, many of our graduates go on to pursue research careers, either through doctoral study in academia or commercial research. In each case, the rigour of course and our stimulating research environment ensures their continued success.

Further information on Warwick's Computer Science Postgraduate research options.Link opens in a new window

Research and facilities >

First-class facilities

You will have extended hours access to the following dedicated computing laboratories:

High specification workstations - Intel i5 CPU, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GPUs (RTX3060 and RTX5070s)
Comfortable spaces for group work and collaboration
Specialised hardware and software for student projects

We have specialist state-of-the-art equipment to support teaching:

Computer graphics - Nvidia GPUs (RTX3060 and RTX5070s)
High-performance computing - Batch Compute system (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/intranet/user_guide/batch_compute) in the department and where required, access to SC RTP’s facilities.

We play a leading role in five interdisciplinary research centres and are one of the founding partners of the prestigious Alan Turing Institute for Data Science. This institute – a £42 million collaboration between UK leaders in Computer Science and Mathematics – will shape policy in the UK and stimulate research activity in data science for decades to come, creating unique opportunities for you.

Industry-leading research

The Department of Computer Science at Warwick specialises in four key areas of research.

The below pages have information about the research area, publications and projects, and news and events.

Theory and Foundations
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems
Systems and Security
Biomedical Data Analytics

FAQs >

Robert Garratt, Partner - IBM Consulting

At IBM we are passionate about our relationship with Warwick’s Department of Computer science, and with the University of Warwick more broadly. Warwick produces highly capable graduates, some of whom go on to become our colleagues, clients of our consulting services or customers of our technology products. When I’ve had the opportunity to hear students present their project work, I am always impressed by their combination of technical capability, business acumen and communication skills.

Department of Computer Science