Overview

Academics and Supervisors

All students have a primary and a secondary supervisor who provide regular and high quality advice, support and direction in their academic endeavours. You will work closely with your supervisors to develop, investigate and write-up a project at the cutting edge of Computer Science and/or Data Science research. Visit our staff profiles for more information about individual research interests.

Pastoral Tutors

Each student of the Computer Science programme from The University of Exeter will also be assigned a pastoral tutor who will take on a pastoral role and mediate on any problems that arise during the period of study. Your tutor will keep in regular contact and provide background stability and support.

Programme Structure

Our main areas of Computer Science research are:

Artificial intelligence research areas focus on social network understanding, remote sensing, human-computer interaction, cognitive science and on the philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence and computer science.

Computer vision research activities include visual attention, autonomous control, collaboration and decision strategies for cooperative robots, deep multi-modal embedding, graph neural networks etc.

Cyber security research mainly focuses on formal methods, security/safety engineering, and software engineering with the aim to build secure, reliable, resilient software and hardware systems.

Data and network science

Evolutionary computing and optimisation

High performance computing and networking

Machine learning

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2023-09-25 00:00:00

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Starting 2024-01-08 00:00:00

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Starting 2024-04-29 00:00:00

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More details

There are no specific deadlines for applications, though the majority of students start in September.

Language

English

IELTS

6

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TOEFL^® IBT

87

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Informatics & Information Technology Computer Sciences Software Engineering View 32 other PhDs in Informatics & Information Technology in United Kingdom

Academic requirements

GPA

Lower Second Class

English requirements

IELTS

6

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TOEFL^® IBT

87

Student insurance

Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:

Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
Liability
Home contents and baggage
Accidents
Legal aid

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Other requirements

General requirements

Our entry requirements vary by programme. Some programmes accept a wide variety of degree subjects whilst others expect you to have studied the subject already at first degree level. We usually require you to have, or expect to obtain, at least a British Second Class Honours degree or its international equivalent.

Tuition Fee

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International

24000 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 24000 GBP per year during 48 months.
National

4970 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 4970 GBP per year during 48 months.

Living costs for Exeter

649 - 1087 GBP /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

Studyportals Tip: Students can search online for independent or external scholarships that can help fund their studies. Check the scholarships to see whether you are eligible to apply. Many scholarships are either merit-based or needs-based.