Students who have not met the Honours hurdle and are missing up to 20 credits: your performance is insufficient to progress to Year 3 Honours. However, you are eligible to transfer to Year 3 Ordinary BSc (see "Ordinary Degree" below). You will also be required to make up the missing credits from Year 2. InfPALS is a peer support service for Year 1 students focusing on material covered in courses and also general topics related to informatics. The Honours Project will be your only compulsory course for most Informatics degrees other than Cognitive Science (BSc) and joint honours degrees with other Schools. Honours project (40 credits) To progress from Year 3 to Year 4 of the Bachelor's Honours degrees, you must achieve an overall mark in third year of 40 or more and pass at least 80 credits of courses at level 9 or 10 at the first attempt.

You will learn more about vectors, matrices and systems of linear equations. You may have met some of the early ideas at school but throughout the course you will learn about new abstract concepts. You will use the mathematical ideas encountered in practical contexts but also lay the foundations for your study in subsequent years. Calculus and its Applications (20 credits) A cognitive science programme allows you to combine informatics with a range of courses from psychology, linguistics, philosophy and neuroscience. In the fourth year, you take MInf Project (Part 1) and a further 80 points of courses typically at level 10. There is a sortable list of courses available from the Study in this area is based on the mathematics and logic of algorithms, which form the foundations of programming. Similar to Year 4, you will take further advanced courses and continue to develop your project. Potential impact on Year 5Our school boasts a record number of start-ups and spinouts over the last ten years, including those set up by our alumni, such as: Our flagship MInf degree is an integrated programme that earns you a masters level qualification over five years. Students who have not met the Honours hurdle, but achieved all their credits: although you have passed the year, your performance is insufficient to progress to Year 3 Honours. However, you are eligible to transfer to Year 3 Ordinary BSc (see "Ordinary Degree" below).

The School of Informatics does not accept applications for second year entry to our programmes. Year 2 For SQA, GCSE and IB students, unless a higher level is specified in the stated entry requirements, a pass is required in English at the following grades or higher: Any student who is missing credits after the May diet will receive a "deferred" progression decision in June. You must attempt the August assessment for any course you have not passed. After the August diet your progression status will reconsidered by the progression board. UG1 progression after the August exam diet (if not progressing unconditionally) Although you will be selecting from from the same list provided to Honours students (unless you propose your own),SQA Highers: AAAAA (achievement by end of S5 preferred). BBB must be achieved in one year of S4-S6. We offer an integrated programme covering a wide spectrum of Informatics subject areas and taking you to a masters level qualification over five years.

If you are considering buying a computer, your first decision is whether to buy a desktop, laptop or a tablet. A tablet is the most limited; you won’t be able to do much coursework on one. Most students find laptops the most versatile, but the decision is personal. You will type quite a lot and should choose a set-up that lets you do so comfortably. In laptops the trade-off between a large screen and the weight of a machine you will carry around needs careful consideration. For most purposes, any modern processor will be fine; amount of RAM tends to be more important and if you’re going to upgrade anything you might consider this first. Coursework is unlikely to require you to have more disk space than now comes as standard. Your studies will become more focused and you will have more choice in selecting specialised courses. We offer a range of options across all areas of informatics. In your fourth year your optional courses will likely be from the School of Informatics as there are now a much larger number of unique and specialised courses available. The option to choose a course from outside the School of Informatics is still available but you are advised to get permission from the course organiser and have the course choice approved by your personal tutor first. Please note: courses are subject to change and will be updated in April for September’s intake A conceptual and practical introduction to object-oriented programming and software engineering practices. As well as providing a grounding in the use of Java, the course will cover general principles of programming in imperative and object-oriented frameworks. Introduction to Linear Algebra (20 credits) internships and networking opportunities (with employers from local organisations to top multinationals)If you fail these criteria, you will be allowed to take re-sit exams to try to achieve an Ordinary degree. IB: HL: Mathematics (Analysis and approaches only) at 6. Your Mathematics qualifications must have been achieved no more than two academic years prior to entry. SL: English at 5. In your final year, you will be able to access a wide range of masters-level courses delivered by leaders in their fields. Only apply to one Informatics programme Cognitive Science students may apply for the degree in either School and choose courses from both allowing them to combine the study of core computing and human science subjects of their choice of specialisation.