Lancaster University, School of Computing and Communications Masters Degrees

We offer Masters Programmes in Computer Science, Data Science and Cyber Security (NCSC-certified). Our ethos is to combine our research excellence with practical, experimental approaches to equip you with the knowledge and skills to achieve your career aspirations.

You will benefit from high quality teaching delivered by globally recognised academics, state-of-the-art facilities including dedicated 24-hour teaching laboratories, individual supervision, and mentoring by academic staff. Our aim is to help you discover the fascinating and wide-ranging skills and knowledge needed to unlock your potential.

Each Masters course provides you with the opportunity to work with one of the many businesses that we have established partnerships with, to help enhance your career prospects upon graduation.

Our research shares a strong engineering ethos that emphasises an understanding of real-world challenges and focuses on the developments and experimental evaluation of systems. We are actively engaged in interdisciplinary research in areas ranging from signal processing and wireless networking to innovative user interaction, software engineering, cyber security, natural language processing and data science.

In addition we believe in conducting research in partnership with end users and industry. We have projects in many areas including health transport; energy management; online security, crime fighting, counter terrorism; environmental informatics, emergency response and computing for energy conservation.