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The Internet of Things is projected to substantially influence various industries, with forecasts of its expansion and achievements continually increasing. The MSc Internet of Things with Industrial Placement is a specialized two-year program designed to equip students for professional roles by developing expertise in Computing Science, Engineering, and Data Analytics. This industrial placement offers postgraduate students the chance to acquire organized, high-level professional experience within a work-based learning setting as part of their university curriculum. It enables participants to enhance, polish, and evaluate their essential personal and professional competencies. The placement experience greatly contributes to improving students' career readiness, boosts confidence through practical application of theoretical knowledge, and equips them for future opportunities in the computing field.
Applicants must have gained
(i) an upper second class honours degree or better, in the subject areas of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or closely related discipline, from a university of the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, or from a recognised national awarding body, or from an institution of another country which has been recognised as being of an equivalent standard;
or
(ii) an equivalent standard (normally 50%) in a Graduate Diploma, Graduate Certificate, Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma or an approved alternative qualification excluding Conversion courses; and the qualification must be in the subject areas of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or closely related discipline.
In exceptional circumstances, as an alternative to (a) (i) or (a) (ii) and/or (b), where an individual has substantial and significant experiential learning, a portfolio of written evidence demonstrating the meeting of graduate qualities (including subject-specific outcomes, as determined by the Course Committee) may be considered as an alternative entrance route.