School of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science was founded and the top floor of the Tower Building became home in 1986. We crept into every crack and crevice that became available there until finally relocating to the newly developed Jubilee Campus in the September 1999.

Computer science changes at an incredible speed. We regularly review what we teach and how we teach it and it is taught by peoplecarrying out world-class research, whose interests cover all aspects of computer science. This research feeds directly into our curriculum. 

• Research in the Agents Lab spans the specification, design and implementation of agent-based systems, including logics for agents, agent programming and verification, and the application of agents in simulation and virtual environments.
• The ASAP research group carries out multi-disciplinary research into mathematical models and algorithms for a variety of real-world optimisation problems under uncertainty.

A Computer Science degree from The University of Nottingham will equip you with lifelong skills that you can use in a wide variety of jobs; from management to consulting, from programming to information systems administration, from IT companies to financial services and teaching. The second year group project is a good illustration of a module from which students will gain team building and other key employability skills. Some examples of the companies which our graduates have gone on to work with are; Accenture, BT, Glaxo Smith Kline Ltd, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hewlett Packard, IBM, J P Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Rolls Royce Airlines.