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).
Year One
Academic year 22-23
Compulsory
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 22-23
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
Selective - Choose 1 modules from the following list
Spring
Extracurricular
Autumn
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Year Three
Academic year 22-23
Compulsory
Autumn and Spring
Summer
Selective - Choose from 25 to 30 ECTS (should be equivalent to 5 to 6 modules) from the following list
Autumn
- 60001 Advanced Computer Architecture
- 60007 The Theory and Practice of Concurrent Programming
- 60016 Operations Research
- 60020 Simulation and Modelling
- 60023 Type Systems for Programming Languages
- 70050 Introduction to Machine Learning (Term 1)
Spring
- 60003 Communicating Computer Science in Schools
- 60005 Graphics
- 60006 Computer Vision
- 60008 Custom Computing
- 60009 Distributed Algorithms
- 60013 Logic-Based Learning
- 60015 Network and Web Security
- 60017 System Performance Engineering
- 60019 Robotics
- 60029 Data Processing Systems
Selective - Choose 7.5 ECTS (should be equivalent to 1 module) from the list below.
Autumn and Spring
- BUSI60040 Corporate Finance Online
- CLCC00010 German Level 3
- CLCC00028 Spanish Level 6
- COMPM0352 I-Explore (5 ECTS)
- DESE61005 Multidisciplinary Project Module
- 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
Optional - Choose from 0 to 7.5 ECTS (should be equivalent to 0 to 1 modules) from the following list
Autumn and Spring
Spring
Extracurricular
Autumn
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Year Four
Academic year 22-23
Compulsory
Autumn
Autumn, Spring and Summer
Selective - Choose from 25 to 35 ECTS (should be equivalent to 5 to 7 modules) from the following list
Autumn
- 60001 Advanced Computer Architecture
- 70005 Complexity
- 70006 Computational Finance
- 70015 Mathematics for Machine Learning
- 70018 Privacy Engineering
- 70020 Program Analysis
- 70022 Scalable Systems and Data
- 70023 Scalable Software Verification
- 70028 Reinforcement Learning
- 70068 Scheduling and Resource Allocation
Spring
- 60008 Custom Computing
- 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
- 70017 Principles of Distributed Ledgers
- 70019 Probabilistic Inference
- 70021 Quantum Computing
- 70024 Software Reliability
- 70025 Software Engineering for Industry
- 70030 Knowledge Representation
- 70031 Modal Logic for Strategic Reasoning in AI
- 70067 Robot Learning