Why study Computer Science?
Are you looking for a challenge? We aim to stretch you and challenge your intellect by taking real-world problem solving, looking at situations and working out how to make computer programs to simulate them or solve problems for them. Computer technology is part of just about everything that touches our lives from the cars we drive, to the movies we watch, to the ways businesses and governments deal with us.
Computer science requires and develops capabilities in solving deep, multidimensional problems requiring imagination and sensitivity to a variety of concerns.
The majority of our students go on to university and around 70% follow computer related courses, such as computer science, artificial intelligence, games design, games programming,software engineering, systems analysis, informatics, or joint courses such as business management with computing or IT.
From Engineering to Business Management, Medicine to Biology, and Language Processing through to Psychology, Sociology and Archaeology – all the sciences today need computer science in some form or another. This is exactly what makes the subject so exciting and is opening up ever more employment opportunities for computer scientists.
Areas of Study
- Fundamentals of programming and data structures, data representation, computer systems, computer organisation and architecture, communication and networking, algorithms, databases and functional programming.
- Systematic approach to problem solving
- Theory of computation
- Consequences of uses of computing
- Systematic approach to problem solving
Entry Guidelines
In addition to the Sixth Form entry criteria, students wishing to study this subject are required to have a minimum grade 6 in Computing or Mathematics at GCSE (or equivalent).