Computer Science with Industrial Placement (Games Engineering) MCompu (Hons)

This degree in game engineering includes an industrial placement to give you practical work experience and boost your CV, as well as a year of study at Master's level. They enable you to design, develop and implement computer graphics software and applications on a variety of architectures including games consoles, graphic workstations and advanced 3D reality environments. They also allow you to exploit such software and hardware in entertainment, engineering, design and scientific visualization. You will learn about the design, development and implementation of software that drives computer games. Explore different aspects of computing science – such as games design, bioinformatics, and security - in your first two years. You'll spend a year on an accredited, paid industrial placement between Stages 2 and 3. In the present job market, computing science graduates are better placed than many others to obtain employment in a challenging and fulfilling career, and the employability of Newcastle graduates is particularly high. Computing manufacturers and software houses, for example, recruit specialists to develop software solutions. Organizations that use computers on a large scale – such as banks, insurance companies, the electronics industry, central and local government, and management in all areas of business – also offer employment opportunities to graduates with computing skills.