Computer Science with Business Enterprise Systems

Description

The programme is available with an industrial placement, which lengthens the programme by one year. This allows you to put the knowledge learned on the programme into practice in a real world situation, and gives you a head start in the competitive job market.

The Computer Science with Business Enterprise Systems degree is more than just Computer Science, and more than an Information Technology degree. This is a four-year programme (or five, with an industrial placement), leading to a Masters degree that focuses on the design, deployment and management of enterprise systems.

What is an Enterprise System?

An Enterprise System is a very large software system, but there's more to it than that. Let's consider some examples:

• SABRE is an ultra-large scale international software system used by airlines, rail companies and hotels for making passenger and customer reservations. Airlines in all countries of the world use it for making passenger bookings. Each individual airline may have its own internal system for managing bookings, but this internal system needs to be able to talk to the systems operated by other companies, to support things like code-sharing.

• Another good example is a system for electronic health records, for example, like the one designed and operated by the NHS. This system provides a uniform way for health information (e.g. patient prescriptions, x-rays) to be recorded and shared amongst health providers - like hospitals, surgeries and administrators.

• A third example is cloud computing, and systems provided by international companies like Google and Amazon. Cloud computing is a fundamental technology - it allows organisations to share computing resources (e.g. to store data, or to use shared services), rather than having to purchase and deliver the resources themselves. Cloud computing also enables enterprise-level computing, and allows cross-border and international organisations to share computing resources efficiently and effectively.

There are lots of other examples - and you will find out more about them in this course! - but what is interesting about these systems is:

• They can be difficult to build (e.g. so as to handle demands from massive numbers of users, and to provide always-on capability).

• Once they are built, you're not finished! These systems can be challenging to maintain (e.g. when new capabilities are required).

• There are more than just technical challenges; there are organisational, social and business challenges too! Enterprise systems are challenging to deploy into companies (e.g. how does a new airline adopt SABRE, and how does adoption change the airline's organisational structure?).

• Finally, these systems are challenging to manage once they have been deployed and are being used by real people solving real problems for their organisation.

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 10778 Year (EEA)
• EUR 19808 Year (Non-EEA)

Home/EU: £9,000; Overseas: £16,540

• English

Course Content

The programme has several novel components:

• It offers a specialist management strand of teaching, focusing on the issues related to deploying and managing ultra-large scale software systems. This includes organisational, social and legal issues, as well as technical ones.

• It excludes teaching of hardware and electronics (apart from one introductory module in the first year). The programme is thus directed at students with more interest in software and social/legal issues of computing than electronics and hardware.

• It builds on the Department's close relationships with industry. Participation in this programme will bring you into direct contact with members of top business organisations and industry leaders, and give you first-hand experience of dealing with the problems of Enterprise Systems.

• It uses novel teaching methods, including student-directed seminars, structured interviews of experts from industry, and team and individual projects.

The first two years form a solid foundation in Computer Science, and provide an introduction to management in the context of Enterprise Systems. The structure in the third and fourth years allows for a sharpening of the focus and the greater exercise of creativity. This is especially true of both individual and team project work, in which your own newly developed interests in Enterprise Systems can be given full rein. Also, options can be chosen from a wide variety of topics that encompass the most cutting-edge developments in Computer Science.

First Year

The first year contains essential fundamental material in programming, computer architectures and human-computer interfaces. It also contains mathematical and theoretical foundations of computer science.

Second Year

The second year continues with fundamental material, such as 'Principles of Programming Languages', 'Systems and Compilers', and 'Computability and Complexity'. Slightly more specialised topics start to be introduced, for example 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'Vision and Graphics'. Furthermore, all students can choose between a large Software Engineering project or a Hardware project.

Third Year

Once you reach your third year, there is more flexibility and you can choose 6 modules from a range of options.

Fourth Year

In the fourth year, you do a large individual research project, a group project and five modules.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5 CAE score : 80(Grade A) TOEFL paper-based test score : 600 TOEFL iBT® test : 100

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Requirements

UK A-levels: AAB

IB Diploma Programme: 34 points including HL 6 in essential subjects

Scottish Qualifications: AAAAB at Higher Level and AB at Advanced Higher Level

BTEC: DDD in National Diploma plus A level Mathematics

Check our website www.cs.york.ac.uk/undergraduate for other acceptable qualifications.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of York.

Accreditation

You will receive a BSc or BEng on graduation, which are accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the BSC (British Computing Society), the Charterd Institute for IT .

If you chose to take a year in industry, this is an accredited part of your degree. This is part of the training you would need to become a Chartered Engineer (CEng).