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The vibrant research culture of our School strongly encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration with each research section running its own seminar series, as well as contributing to a weekly research forum.

We are rated top in Scotland for research impact with 68% of our impact judged world-leading and 32% internationally excellent.

We have over 50 academic staff and more than 100 PhD students. Our research strategy is based on combining world-leading theoretical work with practical applications and much of our research has created high public impact.

Our research degrees enjoy world-wide prestige and we offer postgraduate programmes of outstanding quality. Postgraduate students in the Computing Science programme of the University of Glasgow benefit from the best possible support and supervision and, on graduating, they are well qualified to take up key posts in industry and academia.

Computing Science has held a departmental Bronze Award from Athena SWAN since October 2015, recognising our commitment to provide the resources necessary to eliminate gender bias and create an inclusive culture that values female staff.

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Programme Structure

Courses include

Cyber security

Healthcare technologies

Media and data science

Programming languages

Understandable autonomous systems

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Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-22 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

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Round1:1Oct-5Nov Round2:6Nov-17Dec Round3:18Dec-4Feb Round4:5Feb-25Mar Round5:26Mar-13May Round6:14May-8July

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

90

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PTE Academic

59

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Computer Sciences Software Engineering View 123 other Masters in Software Engineering in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

90

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PTE Academic

59

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

2.1 Honours degree or equivalent

Transcripts/degree certificate

Two references

A three-to-four page research proposal in accordance with the School’s guidelines

CV

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Tuition Fees

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33210 GBP / year

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5238 GBP / year

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Living costs

Glasgow

United Kingdom

620 - 1012 GBP / month

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Funding

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