MSc in Networked
Computer Systems
The MSc NCS (formerly DCNDS) programme
Advanced Internet Engineering for the 21st Century
The MSc NCS is an internationally renowned programme, lectured
by acknowledged experts, producing high quality, highly employable
graduates. It is an advanced one-year full-time masters programme,
aimed at graduates who already have a background in computer
science and who wish to specialise in the area of networks
and distributed systems.
We strive to ensure that our graduates are amongst the best
qualified individuals in this area anywhere in the world.
This opens up considerable opportunities: in Europe currently,
there are thousands of job vacancies in the area of computer
networking and industry is seeking leaders with the depth
of knowledge needed to help design, deploy and use Internet
technologies for the new millennium.
Our students
In order to maintain the quality of our programme, we seek
high quality applicants. Passing the MSc NCS adds considerably
to your commercial worth, enhancing employment prospects both
in terms of opportunity and level over students with only
an undergraduate degree.
As a student on the MSc NCS, in addition to being taught
by active researchers, you will have the opportunity of attending
seminars given by people in the front line of commerce and
industry. Finally, you will have the opportunity to put the
principles you have been taught into practice in a six month
full-time group project, working in either an active research
field or on a practical problem of current interest, possibly
with industrial involvement.
The Computer Science Department at UCL
UCL has been involved in much of the research and development
that makes the Internet what it is today. UCL Computer Science
pioneered the study of internetworking technologies in Europe
and remains Europe's premier department for networking research.
Our current success is part of a long tradition of networking
research at UCL. Peter Kirstein, our founding Head of Department
was instrumental in bringing the first non-US Arpanet node
(forerunner of the Internet) to UCL (in 1973). He has recently
been honoured by receving the CBE from the Queen and the SIGCOMM
Jon Postel Award for his pioneering work in networking,
work that has formed the backbone of our research for the
past 30 years.
As a college, UCL is a liberal institution, with a pioneering
history of openness. It was the third university to be founded
in England, after Oxford and Cambridge, and the first to admit
students regardless of race, class and religious beliefs.
It was also the first university to admit women as full students.
The progressive doctrines of its founders, which are part
of our academic culture, have been a fundamental driver in
shaping higher education across the globe.
In terms of research income, UCL is part of the 'super-league'
of top four including Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College.
UCL is ranked consistently by the Higher Education Funding
Council for England as being in the top group multi-faculty
universities for research.
Read more about UCL here.
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