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 25-26
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, Spring and Summer
- COMPM0193 Additional Tuition
- COMPM0701 Programming Competition Training
- COMPM0804 Student Support and Wellbeing
Year Two
Academic year 25-26
Compulsory
Autumn
- 50001 Algorithm Design and Analysis
- 50002 Software Engineering Design
- 50004 Operating Systems
- 50008 Probability and Statistics
Autumn and Spring
Spring
- 50003 Models of Computation
- 50005 Networks and Communications
- 50007.2 Computing Practical 2 (Intro to Compilers)
- 50013 Machine Learning
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 25-26
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
- 60033 Computing Research Collective
- 60037 Mathematics for Machine Learning
Spring
- 60003 Communicating Computer Science in Schools
- 60005 Graphics
- 60006 Computer Vision
- 60008 Custom Computing
- 60013 Logic-Based Learning
- 60015 Network and Web Security
- 60017 System Performance Engineering
- 60019 Robotics
- 60021 Year 3 Software Engineering Group Project
- 60034 Deep Learning
- 60035 Natural Language Processing
Compulsory - Choose from 5 to 7.5 ECTS (should be equivalent to 1 module) from the following list
Autumn and Spring
Spring
- 60024 Researching Academic Integrity in an Artificial Intelligence Driven World
- 60028 Demystifying Machine Learning: Theory and Applications
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 25-26
Core
Autumn
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
- 70021 Quantum Computing
- 70022 Scalable Systems and Data
- 70023 Scalable Software Verification
- 70024 Software Reliability
- 70025 Software Engineering for Industry
- 70028 Reinforcement Learning
- 70068 Scheduling and Resource Allocation
- 70086 Advanced Computer Architecture
- 70100 Computational Neurodynamics
- 70103 Statistical Information Theory
- 70114 Machine Learning Systems and Hardware
Spring
- 70001 Advanced Computer Graphics
- 70004 Advanced Computer Security
- 70007 Computational Optimisation
- 70010 Deep Learning
- 70014 Machine Learning for Imaging
- 70016 Natural Language Processing
- 70019 Probabilistic Inference
- 70020 Program Analysis
- 70031 Formal Methods for Safe AI
- 70067 Robot Learning
- 70070 Custom Computing
- 70098 Introduction to Concrete Complexity
- 70105 Deep Graph-Based Learning
- 70112 Non-Euclidean Methods in Machine Learning
- 70113 Generative AI
Elective - Choose from 0 to 12.5 ECTS (should be equivalent to 0 to 2 modules) from the following list
Autumn and Spring
- 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)