LIFE AS A COMPUTER SCIENTIST
Step inside the student experience: View a sample timetable, explore subject videos, and hear first-hand from current students.
YOUR SAMPLE TIMETABLE
Want to know what you can you look forward to as a computer science student at Manchester? Take a look at the example timetable below.
Please note this is a sample timetable and is only included to give you an idea of how your time might be spent in first year. Units may be subject to change and availability. Students are issued their personal timetable upon enrolment of the course.
MONDAY
10am: Lab Team Project 1pm: Lecture Foundations of Computation 3pm: Drop-in Lab Operating Systems
TUESDAY
10am: Group Tutorial with Personal Tutor
11am: Guest Lecture Team project
1pm: Examples Class Mathematical Techniques
WEDNESDAY
9am: Lab Data Science 12pm: PASS Peer Support Sessions with Second Years
1pm onwards: Clubs and Societies
THURSDAY
10am: Lecture Mathematical Techniques 11pm: Lecture Data Science 2pm: Coding Session Operating Systems
FRIDAY
11am: Lecture Programming 2pm: Examples Class Foundations of Computation 3pm Lecture Data Science
SOCIETIES
UniCS, Manchester Data Science Soc, UniCS, Crackchester, Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), PASS Mentoring - there are so many societies to choose from at Manchester even before you consider sports, cultural communities, and special interest.
STEP INTO A DAY IN THE LIFE
Join Amelie, a second year computer science student, as she takes us along in a Day in the Life.
From lectures and workshops to lunch with a friend and dance class, Amelie has a full day which will give you a real insight into what studying here is really like.
FIRST YEAR PROJECTS
From party games and adventure quests to SQL and Java Script, a few of our students were kind enough to share the projects they are working on.
If you were challenged to make one web-based application, what do think you'd choose?
MEET A LECTURER
Would you like to be taught by a lecturer whose name you can find on the rolling credits of Star Wars?
First years at The University of Manchester are fortunate enough to count Dr Zahra Montazeri among our many exciting project supervisors. You can find her inspiring students and movie-goers with her hard work and talent every day.
Karen Onwuazo
BSc (Hons) Computer Science
"I’ve learnt so much so quickly while studying Computer Science at Manchester! I’ve learnt over 10 programming languages and have so many cool projects I can show off to employers and friends. I'm particularly proud of my application that monitors the unfairness and bias of a machine learning model."
"Through group projects in my course and extracurriculars, I gained a real sense of what working in the tech industry is like, both socially and technically. It removed a lot of the ambiguity and made real-world work feel more approachable."
Merve Turan
BSc Computer Science
"I really like the team project in first year. When you come to uni, you don’t know anyone, but being put into that team I made friends. My first-year project team are best friends actually, and we even mentor together!”
“I study in so many places across campus - the Engineering Building, Kilburn, Ali G. It sounds weird but every nook and cranny of this amazing place has personality.”
“Students here know how to code against the bare metal *and* how to talk to their teammates *and* how to organise a fab May Ball. It’s the best!”
