This course aims to teach graduates with a suitable IT background how to set up and run web based businesses or to support online business portals for an SME.
This full-time course starts in mid September and lasts one year. Admission requires a 1st or 2nd class honours degree or its equivalent with a substantial academic background in software development.
The F2WM MSc course can also be taken part-time or as a 9 month F2WD Postgraduate Diploma.
Full time students take 4 modules in semester 1 and 4 modules in semester 2 and must normally take modules in bold.
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After semester 2, students continue full time on the MSc project F21MP until the course ends in August.
Various schemes are available for financing study on this course. Applications are made to the course Admissions Officer at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Non-native English speakers are expected to be proficient in English equivalent to a computer based TOEFL score of at least 213, a British Council IELTS score of at least 6.0, Cambridge Proficiency C or University of Michigan ECPE. English language training courses can be taken at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh during the summer.
The 8 taught modules can also be studied over 9 months as part of a Postgraduate Diploma course with the same title. Students who perform at MSc level on the Postgraduate Diploma course may transfer when it ends to the MSc course and complete their project F21MP for an MSc.
Candidates holding a little less than a 1st or second class honours degree or its equivalent may be admitted to the Postgraduate Diploma course and are eligible for transfer to the MSc course under the normal conditions.
Part-time study for the MSc over two years is also possible by special arrangement with the course director. A typical arrangement would be for students to take 2 modules in semesters 1 and 2 in the first year, 2 modules in semesters 1 and 2 in the second year and split the research and implementation of the MSc project over 2 years.
To qualify for an MSc or Postgraduate Diploma, students must successfully complete 8 lectured modules at the appropriate level. The assessment of these modules is by examination and course work.
MSc students must also complete the project module F21MP at MSc level.
For further information on the course or to arrange a visit to the Department contact the admissions officer.
The Department reserves the right to modify the list of modules and may not run every module every year. It may not be possible to take all combinations of modules, students must satisfy the prerequisites of any modules and any module choice must be made in consultation with the course director.
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