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Join SI-UK and Abertay for this seminar about Abertay’s postgraduate technology courses, providing an overview of the School of Design and Informatics and an introduction to:
These courses are aimed at applicants with an undergraduate degree and/or experience related to computing. We’ll be talking about the careers these can lead onto, and the exciting projects and research happening at Abertay in this field.
Abertay is a modern university, located in a city-centre campus in Dundee, Scotland’s fourth city. Dundee is well known as one of Scotland’s leading tech industry hubs and Abertay offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees that prepare students for the industries and jobs of the modern world.
The School of Design & Informatics aims to educate students to be the innovators and ground-breakers of tomorrow’s computing and digital media-based industries. The School offers a wide range of industry accredited courses, from technology courses in ethical hacking and games programming to creative courses in design and digital media creation.
Abertay is renowned for its world-leading development of computer games degree programmes. It launched the world’s first computer games degree in 1997. The University has ranked top in Europe for computer games education every year since 2015 (Princeton Review World Top 25 Games Universities) and was first to be named a UK Centre for Excellence in Computer Games Education.
Abertay is proud of its contribution in building the city of Dundee’s place as a global hub for computing and gaming and home to one-third of Scotland’s booming games industry.
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