Bachelor of Science (Hons) Computer Science

This is a 3-year Honours degree for students who have completed the Leaving Certificate Computer Science subject, a GCE in Computing and certain other equivalent qualifications such as a QQI FET Level 5 award in Computing. Minimum grades apply.

The ability to deliver the course in 3 years is based on the ability of students who already have a background in computing to “get up to speed” quickly on the core curriculum and will rapidly progress to more advanced topics.

This is a broad-based computing course which covering a full range of core topics including programming, databases, networking, machine learning and AI and data science.apps, your opportunities are superb.

Within the northwest the “Skills Needs of the ICT and FinTech Sectors in the NorthWest 2018” report shows a significant growth in employment in ICT employment in the private sector having almost doubled between 2008 and 2015 in the face of a national recession and predicting a further almost doubling of employment in ICT in the region between 2015 and 2020. Every local ICT employer is actively hiring new graduates. We see the same picture nationally with 35% of all “difficult to fill vacancies” being in ICT and approximately 5000 unfilled vacancies at any one time in ICT.

According to The Code Institutes The Digital Skills Crisis – Time to Act white paper “There is a global skills crisis at play. In Europe alone, the figure is now expected to top 500,000 unfilled ICT roles by 2020. As a result, competition for the right talent is fierce.” The white paper goes to identify another 750,000 unfilled ICT roles in the United States. So yes there is plenty of work for all of our graduates.