Computer Science (Digital & Technology Solutions) BSc at University of Leeds

This four-year degree apprenticeship with PwC will give you a head start in your chosen profession. You will experience university life alongside work experience and skills training.

• Work experience with a leading organisation: You’ll work on cutting-edge digital and technology client work during work placements with PwC.

• A degree from a highly ranked university: Leeds is among the top universities in the world and the School of Computing is ranked in the top ten in the UK.

• Earn while you learn: Your university tuition fees are funded by PwC and as a PwC employee, you'll receive a salary each month.

• A job offer from PwC: At the end of the degree programme, providing you meet their performance criteria, PwC will offer you a graduate job.

This degree programme will provide you with the core technical and problem-solving skills required to succeed in industry. You will develop core skills in information systems, data, cyber security, business organisation, systems development, computer and network infrastructure, IT project management and technical knowledge informed by the School’s research.

You’ll be taught by experts in world-class facilities and undertake project work in every year, to build the range of skills you’ll need throughout your professional career.

During this programme, you will undertake two summer placements (after the end of Year 1 and Year 2) and a full-year placement in Year 3. All of these placements will be hosted by PwC.

Specialist facilities

You’ll have access to specialist facilities including a new testbed for cloud computing and dedicated labs with high-spec, dual-display Linux workstations, iPad, Mac and Android development areas. For final-year project work you’ll also be able to make the most of our research facilities, such as a 53-megapixel powerwall display and dedicated 3D virtual reality suite.

Career opportunities

Our graduates have excellent job prospects. With the continuing application of computer technologies, rapid growth of hardware and software technologies, their allied industries, and widespread application, the demand for our graduates is set to continue for the foreseeable future. University of Leeds students are among the top 5 most targeted by top employers according to The Graduate Market 2021, High Fliers Research.

Our graduates find employment in the IT industry, ranging from start-ups to international organisations, and across a range of other sectors including technology, retail, finance, public authorities and consultancies. We have close links with companies such as PwC, IBM, Accenture and Hewlett Packard, and employers ranging from small/medium enterprises to large multi-nationals consistently target our graduates.

Manyof our graduates have launched careers as software developers and engineers, mobile solution engineers, technology consulting analysts, production project managers and business system analysts at organisations like Amazon, BAE Systems, Barclays, BT, Deloitte, Gazprom, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, IG, Microsoft, PwC, Saudi Aramco, Toshiba Research Europe and Transport for London.