Bachelor's Programme in Computing Science

Computing Science has dramatically changed our lives over the past decade. Can you imagine life without your smartphone, laptop, or the Internet? Or without social media, Netflix, Spotify and online shopping? Just over twenty years ago, all of these things did not even exist!

Why study Computing Science?

• Are you interested in how computing science can change our society?
• Do you want more than only learning to program?
• Do you like to puzzle and use your creativity?
• Can you protect IT systems from hackers and cyber criminals?
• Do you want to work in a student software company and work for real customers?
• Students are very satisfied with this study programme. (source: Elsevier 2019)
• Our students rate this study with an 8,4 (source: NSE).
• This programme was recently awarded the quality label ‘Top Programme' and is rated the best in its field in the Keuzegids 2020.

What will you learn?
Computing Science is an English-taught Bachelor's programme. In three years you will be provided with a broad and solid mathematical foundation that will allow you to deal with and shape the information technologies of the future.

Computing Science is about learning to program, right? Right, but that is only a small part of the Bachelor’s programme. As a computer scientist, you will learn how software works, how information is represented as digital data, what the underlying mathematical and logical principles are, and how all this is implemented in hardware like computers and digital networks. You will also learn how to apply cyber security to protect IT systems.

Future career opportunities

• IT companies
• Organisations in the private sector
• Career in research, in the industry or academia
• Government agencies
• E-commerce businesses
• Your own company or start-up