Postgraduate Conversion Courses

What are conversion courses?
As the name suggests, these year-long courses enable graduates who have not studied an IT degree to gain relevant knowledge and skills. They are available at many UK universities and generally lead to a Masters degree. Conversion courses are by no means all the same. Some are targeted at graduates from particular subject disciplines and they can aim to prepare their students for quite different areas of IT employment.

Finding out more
A good initial source of initial information is the AGCAS survey ‘Conversion Courses in Computer Science and IT’ which is available on the Prospects website at www.prospects.csu.ac.uk . It covers selection criteria, number of applications per place, typical jobs entered by graduating students and possible sources of finance.

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