Our courses
Our courses explore some of today's most exciting global technological developments from artificial intelligence and robotics to mobile application developments and cyber security. With a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of computing, and an emphasis on growing your professional skills, a degree in computer science from Loughborough University can open up a wide range of rewarding careers.
Why choose Loughborough?
Highly rated
We're ranked Top-10 in the UK for Computer Science in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024.
Employability-boosting placements
All our courses offer the option to take an employability-boosting professional placement year - a great way to gain on-the-job experience in a real role with real responsibilities. A year spent applying your learning in an industrial, commercial or research context gives you invaluable work experience to strengthen your CV and can even introduce you to your future employer.
Assisted by a dedicated placement tutor and the University's Careers Network, our students have found placements with a wide range of reputable organisations.
Recent placement destinations include: IBM, Microsoft, BBC, Renault F1, Disney, CERN, Morgan Stanley, Sony Europe, Toyota, Fisher Scientific, GSK, Hewlett Packard, BMW, and GE Aviation.
Alternatively, you can use your placement year to study abroad with one of our partner institutions; do six months on placement and six months studying abroad; or even do a self-employed placement as part of our 'year in enterprise' scheme - the choice is yours.
Exciting career opportunities
To study computer science is to skill yourself for the future and prepare you for a rewarding career that exist in our rapidly evolving sector. Our graduates regularly go on to enjoy fulfilling careers with major national and international companies like IBM, Sky, J P Morgan, Siemens, Microsoft, Amazon and Cisco.*
What's more, an impressive 98.3% of graduates from the department are in graduate level employment, with a median salary of £35,000 after 15 months of graduation.*
*Graduate Outcomes Survey (2021-2022 graduates, 15 months post-graduation)
Excellent facilities
Our students have access to an excellent learning environment in which to study and work, including dedicated computer laboratories with 24-hour access, specialist laboratory facilities for student project work on robotics, networking, HCI and imaging technology, and support from our team of systems specialists.
