International opportunities
The MEng Computing (International Programme of Study) allows you to develop your linguistic and technical skills through a programme of engineering study in the UK and abroad at a participating institution.
Structure of exchange
Because all our courses have a two-year common study period, you may transfer between courses, within the Computing Integrated Engineering Study Scheme, at any time within that period - all students will initially be registered on the MEng Computing course. This means that you can change your mind about the year abroad until the beginning of your third year.
All our MEng degree programmes include a compulsory 6 month (4 months for JMC) remunerated placement in industry that can be abroad.
Students following the MEng Computing (International Programme of Study) spend their entire fourth year abroad in a recognised institution of higher education (with which Imperial College has an exchange arrangement).
Participating institutions
Current participating Erasmus exchange institutions which take place after the Industrial Placement are:
- Spain - UPM Madrid
- Switzerland - EPFL Lausanne (French speaking)
- Switzerland - ETH Zurich (German speaking)
We also offer a small number of exchange opportunities with the University of California (3rd year, just prior to the 3rd year Industrial Placement), and MIT (4th year, after completing a shortened Industrial Placement).
Prerequisites
The prerequisites are a strong academic record and a good knowledge of the language spoken at the host institution (your thesis will be written in English).
The modules offered in each year are listed below.
Year One
Academic year 23-24
Core
Autumn
- 40001 Introduction to Computer Systems
- 40007 Introduction to Databases
- 40016 Calculus
- COMPM0101 Introduction to DoC Systems
Autumn and Spring
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Spring
Unknown Term
Extracurricular
Autumn
Autumn, Spring and Summer
- COMPM0193 Additional Tuition
- COMPM0701 Programming Competition Training
- COMPM0804 Student Support and Wellbeing
Year Two
Academic year 23-24
Compulsory
Autumn
- 50001 Algorithm Design and Analysis
- 50002 Software Engineering Design
- 50003 Models of Computation
- 50004 Operating Systems
Autumn and Spring
Spring
- 50005 Networks and Communications
- 50006 Compilers
- 50007.2 Introduction to Prolog
- 50008 Probability and Statistics
Spring and Summer
Summer
Elective - Choose 1 ECTS (should be equivalent to 0 modules)
Spring
Extracurricular
Autumn
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Year Three
Academic year 23-24
Core
Summer
Elective - Choose from 35 to 40 ECTS (should be equivalent to 7 to 8 modules) from the following list
Autumn
- 60001 Advanced Computer Architecture
- 60007 The Theory and Practice of Concurrent Programming
- 60012 Introduction to Machine Learning
- 60016 Operations Research
- 60023 Type Systems for Programming Languages
- 60029 Data Processing Systems
- 60032 Networked Systems
- 70015 Mathematics for Machine Learning
Spring
- 60003 Communicating Computer Science in Schools
- 60005 Graphics
- 60006 Computer Vision
- 60008 Custom Computing
- 60009 Distributed Algorithms
- 60015 Network and Web Security
- 60017 System Performance Engineering
- 60019 Robotics
- 60021 3rd Year Software Engineering Group Project (10 ECTS)
Compulsory - Choose from 5 to 7.5 ECTS (should be equivalent to 1 module) from the following list
Autumn
- CIVE60010 The Science of Crowds
- DESE60006 Designing Interventions for Behavioural Change
- EART60031 Space Mining
Autumn and Spring
- BUSI60022 Leading Teams & Organisations
- BUSI60036 Co-creating Innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics
- BUSI60037 Accounting Online
- BUSI60038 Business Economics
- BUSI60040 Corporate Finance Online
- BUSI60041 Entrepreneurship
- BUSI60042 Entrepreneurship Online
- BUSI60043 Finance and Financial Management
- BUSI60044 Managerial Economics Online
- BUSI60045 Managing Innovation
- BUSI60046 Project Management
- CLCC00003 French Level 2
- CLCC00005 French Level 4
- CLCC00010 German Level 3
- CLCC00011 German Level 4
- CLCC00013 German Level 6
- CLCC00019 Japanese Level 2
- CLCC00020 Japanese Level 3
- CLCC00021 Japanese Level 4
- CLCC00024 Spanish Level 2
- CLCC00025 Spanish Level 3
- CLCC00027 Spanish Level 5
- CLCC00034 Mandarin Level 2
- CLCC00035 Mandarin Level 3
- CLCC00036 Mandarin Level 4
- CLCC00040 Arabic Level 2
- CLCC60001 Advanced Creative Writing
- CLCC60003 Conflict, Crime & Justice in the Global Era
- CLCC60004 Contemporary Philosophy & Artificial Intelligence: Probing Meaning, Ethics, & the Frontiers of Knowledge
- CLCC60006 Humanities Project (Years 3 & 4)
- CLCC60007 Lessons from History
- CLCC60010 Philosophy of Mind
- CLCC60011 Psychology of Performance
- CLCC60013 Visual Culture, Knowledge & Power
- CLCC60014 History of Science, Technology & Industry
- CLCC60027 Music Technology (Year 3 & 4)
- CLCC60028 History of Intoxication
- CLCC60030 Collective Intelligence: the Philosophy and Psychology of Thinking in Groups & Crowds
- CLCC60032 Management and Decision-Making: Making Smart Decisions
- CLCC60043 Global Economics
- COMPM0353 I-Explore (5 ECTS)
- COMPM0354 I-Explore (7.5 ECTS)
Spring
- CENG60016 Technologies to Combat Climate Change
- CIVE60009 Building resilient structures: the science and technology of earthquake engineering
- COMP60024 Academic Integrity in STEMM
- COMP60028 Demystifying Machine Learning: Theory and Applications
- DESE61005 Multidisciplinary Project Module
- EDUC60001 The Science of Learning
- MATE60014 Thinking Through Materials: Can Science, History and Art/Design Illuminate Each Other?
- OUTR60001 How to Outreach: multidisciplinary science in schools and for schools
- PHYS60019 Origins: What we have learnt from science about the origin of the world, the universe and life
Elective - Choose from 0 to 7.5 ECTS (should be equivalent to 0 to 1 modules) from the following list
Autumn and Spring
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Extracurricular
Autumn
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Year Four
Academic year 23-24
Core
Autumn
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Elective - Choose from 25 to 35 ECTS (should be equivalent to 5 to 7 modules) from the following list
Autumn
- 70005 Complexity
- 70006 Computational Finance
- 70015 Mathematics for Machine Learning
- 70017 Principles of Distributed Ledgers
- 70018 Privacy Engineering
- 70020 Program Analysis
- 70022 Scalable Systems and Data
- 70023 Scalable Software Verification
- 70025 Software Engineering for Industry
- 70028 Reinforcement Learning
- 70068 Scheduling and Resource Allocation
- 70086 Advanced Computer Architecture
- 70100 Computational Neurodynamics
- 70101 Human-Robot Interaction
- 70103 Statistical Information Theory
Spring
- 70001 Advanced Computer Graphics
- 70004 Advanced Computer Security
- 70007 Computational Optimisation
- 70009 Cryptography Engineering
- 70010 Deep Learning
- 70014 Machine Learning for Imaging
- 70016 Natural Language Processing
- 70021 Quantum Computing
- 70024 Software Reliability
- 70031 Modal Logic for Strategic Reasoning in AI
- 70067 Robot Learning
- 70070 Custom Computing
- 70098 Methods and Tools in the Theory of Computing
- 70105 Deep Graph-Based Learning
Elective - Choose from 0 to 12.5 ECTS (should be equivalent to 0 to 2 modules) from the following list
Autumn and Spring
- BUSI60038 Business Economics
- CLCC00005 French Level 4
- CLCC00010 German Level 3
- CLCC00021 Japanese Level 4
- CLCC00024 Spanish Level 2
- CLCC00035 Mandarin Level 3
- CLCC00040 Arabic Level 2
- CLCC60001 Advanced Creative Writing
- CLCC60006 Humanities Project (Years 3 & 4)
- CLCC60010 Philosophy of Mind
- CLCC60014 History of Science, Technology & Industry
- CLCC60027 Music Technology (Year 3 & 4)
- CLCC60044 Sustainable Futures: Critical Development Pathways
- COMPM0353 I-Explore (5 ECTS)
- COMPM0354 I-Explore (7.5 ECTS)
- COMPM0451 External Module I (5 ECTS)
- COMPM0452 External Module I (7.5 ECTS)
- COMPM0453 External Module II (5 ECTS)