Software Engineering with Industrial Placement (Hons) University of Greater Manchester

Overview

The Software Engineering with Industrial Placement (Hons) program at University of Greater Manchester offers you the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in this field.

Key Features

Congratulations. You're considering a career in the world's most in-demand profession. Software engineering is a truly global activity that concerns building and maintaining software systems and other computer-based solutions. 

By examining all elements of the process – from an initial understanding of the problem to be solved through analysis, design, and development to testing, documentation and maintenance – the BEng (Hons) Software Engineering degree with industrial placement offers you a focused education in software engineering, ready to impress potential employers. 

By studying at the University of Greater Manchester, you can develop essential knowledge and understanding of software engineering principles and practices while experiencing life at the supportive, student-focused, multicultural campus.

Career Opportunities

Software engineers may work at any stage of the software development life cycle. Duties can include producing project requirements, writing algorithms, coding, testing, deployment, or maintenance.

As a BEng (Hons) Software Engineering graduate, you'll possess a wide range of technical and transferable skills such as advanced IT skills, analytical skills, communication, creativity and innovation, independence, logic, numeracy, project management and organisation. The demand for skilled and qualified software engineers is increasing. This is fostered by a transforming economic landscape driven by the need for computing technology solutions.

Software engineering graduates who are new to the field often start out as programmers and work up to positions of greater responsibility, such as software architects or project managers. If you successfully complete the year in industry, you'll already have relevant experience that will give you a significant advantage when seeking work.

Jobs directly related to a software engineering degree include games development, systems development, web design, web development, search engine optimisation, information systems management, and business analysis. A wide variety of career options are also available in sectors such as business, engineering, health care, gaming, publishing, IT, retail, education, medicine, aerospace and cyber security.

Graduates can use the qualification as a stepping-stone into a range of other careers. Some of these roles may require relevant experience and/or postgraduate study. Some possibilities include:

• Advertising, marketing and PR
• Banking, finance and accountancy
• Energy and utilities
• Manufacturing and production
• Public sector and defence
• IT consultancy
• Radio and TV production
• Systems analysis
• Telecommunications
• Multimedia programming
• Digital copywriting
• Network engineering