入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求： The candidate should have a first degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or the international equivalent. They should have obtained the degree at Lower Second level or higher. In exceptional circumstances work experience may
also be considered if the candidate has achieved less than Lower Second in their first degree.
英语要求：Non-native speakers of English will normally be required to have IELTS 6.5 or above (or equivalent).
Please note that the University of Surrey offers English language programmes and is also an IELTS Test Centre.
学费 Tuition Fee ：2011/2012 12500Pounds
课程特征 Course Features
Information systems (IS) increase productivity, improve decision making and lead to competitive advantage. The MSc programme in Information Systems will equip you with skills and methods to manage information technology within business organisations, covering both technical and managerial skills.
This MSc blends recent advances in IT, the Internet and web technologies with business applications. We aim to develop IS professionals who will gain knowledge of information systems design techniques, strategic business disciplines, web technologies and e-business, and who will be equipped with up-to-date techniques for developing IT infrastructure for organisations.
The programme consists of a number of modules, each focusing on an aspect of the planning or design of information systems.
Compulsory modules cover systems development, databases, information security management, and project management. The management modules are taught in-house and are tailored specifically for IT management. There is a rich variety of optional modules including intelligent computing and human computer interaction.
This programme has been created for people who will assume responsibility for the planning, design and implementation of information systems. It is designed for anyone who is, or aspires to be, a systems analyst, IS project manager or IS consultant.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Compulsory Modules
Challenges for Computing Professionals
IT professionals need to appreciate that technologies do not exist in isolation; they require a broad understanding of law and ethics that will enable them to assess the potential risks of, rather than to, a project, from a variety of perspectives in any technology-related undertaking.
Databases and Knowledge Discovery
A key benefit of information systems is their capability to store and organise large amounts of information. A database system is the core part which allows storage and retrieval of such data, and effective design and implementation of the database is often critical for the performance of the system. This module has two aims.
Firstly, to develop the necessary skills and familiarity to use state-of-the-art technologies to design, implement and manage database systems, and secondly to use data mining and information retrieval tools to discover data patterns and retrieve information from the database.
Information Security Management
Security is one of the greatest challenges for computer and information systems in the near future. Information security is a managerial problem as well as a technical one, and good security solutions depend on an ability to identify security requirements based on business needs and business processes. Thus, this module has a two-fold objective. It will look at how information systems can be managed and designed to fill actual business needs. It will also raise an awareness of the great range of security threats and how protection depends on a holistic view of the system.
Information Systems Development
This module provides an introduction to a set of practical techniques to aid the development of information systems and will provide you with a sense of the diversity of computing systems in today’s world. More importantly, it will give you an appreciation of the wide range of issues that are related to the development of information systems. Though the emphasis is on analysis and design skills, you will become familiar with the whole software life cycle, from user requirements through to implementation and testing.
Project Management and Business Strategy
Management is a pervasive, but frequently misunderstood, concept concerned with achieving satisfactory results in continually changing circumstances, particularly within organisations and involving people. Strategy is an important, but not always obvious, element in this activity. You will be better equipped for their life’s work, both in IT and beyond, if they have a basic understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of good management, together with the strengths and limitations of the strategic planning and implementation process.
Optional modules include:
Introduction to Multimedia Security
This module will provide an introductory background to various digital security technologies currently used in different applications for multimedia content and documents. The knowledge gained in this module will also serve as a prerequisite for you to attend the more advanced modules in security technologies and applications.
Agile Web Development
The development of interactive web applications is a rapidly growing area. In the highly dynamic environment of the World Wide Web, those who can rapidly develop and deploy innovative web applications provide themselves with a strong competitive advantage. Web application development frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Django are rapidly gaining support as highly productive development frameworks. This module focuses on Ruby on Rails, and provides hands-on experience of the rapid development of web applications using a method that guarantees strong engagement with customers’ needs.
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment：
Teaching
Taught Masters programmes in the Department of Computing utilise our research-active staff in conjunction with state-of-the-art facilities. We provide a range of learning experiences including lectures, tutorials, directed study, practical laboratories and project work that prepare graduates for their professional life.
We are particularly keen to develop, in all our students, a broad range of generic skills to complement the core technical or scientific competencies of their chosen subject area. Our modular programme format, coupled with the increasing use of innovative teaching and learning strategies such as e-learning and industrially focused short courses, provides a flexible study environment whilst maintaining academic rigour and quality.
Our record of graduate employment is outstanding, with Surrey graduates consistently being in high demand across all sectors.
其它信息 Other Information：
Industry Sponsors and Prizes
The Department benefits greatly from strong links with industry, and our industry partners support the programme in various ways; some with guest lectures and some with prizes for the best student performance (typically £150–200 per prize).
Scholarships
The Department pays a scholarship of £500 to students with a First class honours degree or equivalent, who do not receive any other scholarship or bursary from the University. Please see the Department web pages for the full conditions
Our Department
The Department of Computing is a research-active department with 16 full-time academic staff, and around 350 students at all levels from undergraduate through to PhD. We are proud of our reputation as a friendly department and aim to provide a supportive environment for our student population.
We have strong links with industry, including industrially funded research projects and doctoral students, and are involved in a number of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships with companies across the UK. The Department has a strong research culture and a growing research profile. Our research specialisms and activities inform our teaching on the programmes, both with respect to particular MSc modules, and also in terms of the MSc projects that our students can pursue. Masters students in the Department will surely note the large groups in information security and in computational intelligence.
Our security research covers externally funded projects in electronic voting, in image forensics and digital watermarking, and in security contact-less payment systems. Disciplines employed include cryptology, protocol analysis, image and signal processing, and antenna design.
The research group for Biologically Inspired Modelling and Applications includes research on machine-learning and computational intelligence, with applications in security and surveillance, natural language processing, medical imaging, and biological classification. This group also takes an interest in emerging technologies for Internet computing, such as cloud computing and semantic web.
Other groups, although possibly less visible in the MSc programmes, have also been very successful. The Digital Ecosystems Group and the formal methods activity focus fundamental research on theories and techniques that will be required to support new generations of pervasive computing systems, and are developing analytical modelling techniques to support the development of highquality complex reactive systems.
Our Degree Programmes
The Department offers three MSc programmes. Each with its own distinct focus, all of them offer a taste of the Department’s specialisms. Both Internet Computing and Security Technologies and Applications are technical degrees requiring a solid background in computing or a cognate discipline.
The MSc Information Systems is more of a generalist degree, accepting students from a wider range of backgrounds. It takes a more high-level, overall view on information technologies, and prepares students for managerial roles rather than technical roles in their future careers. It covers business and management topics as well as technical computing subjects.
The MSc Security Technologies and Applications is our newest degree, and it is the most specialised one, building directly on the Department’s multiple activities in information security.
The MSc Internet Computing is concerned with distributed information and computing resources. This includes, but is not limited to, web technologies. The programme also has a strong element of more general, technical computer science and software development skills.
Students also value the strong element of computational intelligence in Internet Computing, and following the appointment of a new chair in computational intelligence in 2009, this is an aspect we want to develop further, possibly as a new degree or possibly as a pathway within Internet Computing.
All of the programmes benefit from the strong research community and the industrial partnerships of the Department. In particular, the dissertation project allows students to work on a topic in one of the key research areas. Even though the programmes share many modules, each has its own focus and direction.
Regardless of which programme you choose, we are committed to making your year at Surrey a valuable and enjoyable experience.