Undergraduate

Software Engineering (with a professional placement year)

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Overview

Software Engineering (with a professional placement year) is offered widely in the UK, so the useful comparison is between departments rather than between countries. It is a three year undergraduate degree, with the specialism widening as you move through the years.

Teaching in Software Engineering lets you specialise partway through, usually between security, data and software engineering.

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Careers opportunities

More process and teamwork than a pure computer science degree, and employers building large systems value that. The hiring bar is the same technical interview, so the fundamentals still have to be there.

Roles graduates go into

  • Software engineer
  • Backend or full stack developer
  • DevOps engineer
  • QA and test engineer
  • Solutions architect
  • Technical lead in time

Where they work

  • Software houses and product companies
  • Banks and insurers
  • Consultancies and integrators
  • Government digital services
  • Startups and scale-ups
After the course

No register. Cloud certification and open source contribution are the two things that move this career fastest.

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Where you will study

University of Sussex

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England
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