Course overview
Computer Science is a broad area which includes designing and building hardware and software systems for a wide range of purposes and processing, structuring and managing various kinds of information.
Covering all aspects of computer science, including the underlying principles and theory, this programme will ensure that when you graduate you will know what is and isn’t possible with computers and be able to find solutions to the problems you will encounter in your professional life.
The programme covers a range of compulsory modules including: Database Development, Software Engineering, Complexity of Algorithms, a second year group software project and a final year individual project.
You then choose from a selection of modules representing the cutting-edge of computer science today. These cover topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cyber Security, Robotics, Computer Networks, and High-Performance Computing, amongst others.
You can choose to maintain a mixture of modules throughout your Computer Science degree or follow a specialist pathway in Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Optimisation, Data Science, or Cyber Security.
Many problems are highly complex and hard to solve even by a computer, requiring solutions designed to exhibit predictable behaviours in terms of their computational cost and data requirements. More precisely, we are interested designing algorithms with provably good performance, both in the terms of runtime and memory requirements. The Algorithms and Optimisation pathway is, therefore, concerned with theoretical modelling of algorithms and their properties. It looks at how complex tasks can be achieved more efficiently. Topics covered in this specialism may include Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Computational Game Theory, Optimisation, Big Data Analysis, Biocomputation, and Complex Information Networks.
Why choose Computer Science at the University of Liverpool?
Learn from world-leading researchers, including Professor Charlie Yang (IEEE Fellow in Robotics), Professor Rahul Savani, and Professor Xiaowei Huang, who are pioneers in their respective fields
