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Computer Science for Artificial Intelligence

BSc (Hons)

Typical offer for 2025
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Overview

Launch your career in the exciting and rewarding field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This 3-year course is built on a foundation of core Computer Science subjects, giving you the flexibility to work in a number of roles and applications.

The course will build your expertise in:

  • computer programming
  • databases
  • web technology
  • advanced AI techniques
  • machine learning

You'll also learn about the critically important ethical and legal issues around the use of AI for real-world problems affecting people globally.

You'll benefit from:

  • our decades of experience in teaching and research
  • our links to local industry for project work within your course
  • invited talks on a huge range of topics

Our Digital Health Enterprise Zone and the Bradford-Renduchintala Centre for Space AI will give you the chance to work with academics, researchers and industry partners collaborating on world-changing AI projects in healthcare and space technology.

Without a doubt your future will be shaped by AI, and we want to help equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in this exciting new era of technology, AI and humanity working together to make a real difference.

Artificial Intelligence will play a major part in our lives, like computing and IT have for decades. As a graduate of this course you can shape the future of this subject, making a positive difference to real people by solving real problems, in roles such as AI developer, data scientist, machine learning engineer and many others.

Entry requirements

Typical offer - 112 UCAS tariff points.

 

A levels

BBC - there are no specific subject requirements.

T levels

Merit - there are no specific subject requirements.

BTEC Extended Diploma

DMM - there are no specific subject requirements.

Applicants on Access Programmes

Meet UCAS tariff of 112 points. There are no specific subject requirements.

International Baccalaureate Requirements

English A HL 5 or SL 5 with no subskills less than 4 OR English B HL 5 with no subskills less than 5 or English B SL 7 with no subskills less than 6.

Plus minimum of

GCSE English Language and Maths at grade C or 4 (equivalents accepted).

English language requirements

Minimum IELTS at 6.0 or the equivalent.

Transferring from another university

If you are currently studying at another university and would like to transfer to the University of Bradford, this course accepts students into the second or third year. This is called advanced entry

Applications for advanced entry will be considered on a case-by-case basis and must include an official transcript (not a screenshot of a portal), all module descriptors, and relevant qualifications. Module descriptors must include learning outcomes.

Applications must be submitted through UCAS and the required documents emailed along with your UCAS Personal ID no later than 31 August prior to the course starting in September. Relevant documents should be emailed to admissions@bradford.ac.uk

Placement Year

Our facilities

The main programming language used in this lab is Java, which supports object orientation, graphical user interfaces, concurrency, and networking. You'll also study languages such as C#, C++, Python, and Ruby.

Fees, finance and scholarships

Tuition fee 2025

  • UK: £9,535

  • International: £24,456

Additional costs

There may be additional costs that you may incur as a student. Though these are not essential to your programme of study you need to be aware of them as a student of the University. A list of the sort of costs you might expect can be found on our fees and finance section.

Financial support

See our fees and financial support section.

Postgraduate Master's Loan

If you live in England you may be able to apply for a special Government-funded Master's Loan to help pay your tuition fees and living costs.
You don't have to pay the loan back until you're earning a certain amount of money.

Scholarships

Every year we award numerous non-repayable scholarships to UK, EU and international students on the basis of academic excellence, personal circumstances or economic hardship. For full details, visit our scholarships section.

Career prospects

Graduates from this course will be comfortable in a wide range of computer science and IT related roles thanks to the alignment with BCS accreditation requirements and backbone of high quality subjects delivered across a number of courses. More specifically though, graduates will be well placed to go on to work in roles that deal with data, AI development, machine learning and content generation in a huge range of industries, thanks to the AI specific modules within the course. Roles that may specifically suit graduates from this course include Data Scientist, focussed roles such as Robotics Engineer, Natural Language Processing developer, Machine Learning model/pipeline developer, AI ethicist, AI-based cybersecurity specialist and many more.

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Study abroad

A study abroad year is a fantastic opportunity to broaden your horizons, build connections with people from different backgrounds and cultures, and strengthen your skills and experience to make you stand out in the job market.

We have opportunities for students to study, work or volunteer in more than 150 countries across the world and will support you every step of the way.

Study support

Research

Terms and conditions of study

The University has a set of terms and conditions for all students accepting an offer to study on a course here at Bradford. This is called The Student Contract. This document sets out the Terms and Conditions which apply when you accept an offer of a place on a programme of study at the University of Bradford.

View our Student Contract for further details.

Transparency statement

Information about this programme and its modules has been published in advance of the academic year to which it applies. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information is accurate at the time of publication, but changes may occur given the interval between publishing and commencement of teaching. Any change which impacts the terms and conditions of an applicant’s offer will be communicated to them.