Excellent career prospects

The School of Computing at Kent is consistently ranked in the top 20 in the UK for students' job prospects (e.g. 5th in Guardian University Guide 2013). Many of our students go on to work for world class businesses. During their degree students can get work experience with leading companies in the UK and overseas ...... more

Wide ranging courses

We offer a wide variety of degree programmes ranging from the more technical computer science courses through to applied computing in areas of interest including business. You can focus on a theme such as Artificial Intelligence or Networks. It is possible to switch between closely related programmes in the early parts of your course .... more

Quality learning environment

We were ranked joint 3rd for teaching quality in the UK. Our department has established an internationally recognised expertise in the teaching of the object-oriented programming language Java, and our impressive computing facilities include a campus-wide WiFi .... more

Research led teaching

The latest Research Assessment Exercise judged our research as world leading or internationally excellent. Our research expertise in areas such as Computer Security, Visualization and Bio-inspired computing feeds into our taught courses and project work. Our students create some amazing applications as part of their final year project ... more

Superb support for international students

We have strong international partnerships and a tradition of welcoming international students onto our degree courses and through exchange programmes such as Erasmus and IAESTE. A pre-degree International Foundation Programme is also available. International students voted our English language unit No. 1 in the UK and the university No. 2 (i-graduate, summer 2009) .... more

Great university experience

Kent has a great location, excellent sports facilities, good transport links .... more
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Oliver Cole (Computer Science with a Year in Industry) says: " I would absolutely recommend a placement year to anybody taking a university course, and in particular to someone taking Computer Science or IT - gaining practical experience on real problems will teach you more than you ever thought possible, and improve your employability too. "