this flexible course offers a largely free choice of modules from our range of advanced master's programmes. **overview** are you a computing graduate whose interests span more than one specialism? do you want the freedom to explore a variety of advanced topics? this course serves as a springboard for employment or research. **your placement** you undertake a work placement of between eight and 50 weeks. for tier 4 students, the placement is available for a year only. you work in real-life technical and business roles, utilising your skills and gaining new ones. the experience you gain on your placement gives you an extra edge when applying for jobs in the future. you are responsible for finding your own placement but are supported by the school’s placement team. dedicated to helping you get the right job, the placement team offer lots of practical support. it is possible to take your placement locally in kent, elsewhere in the uk or perhaps overseas. **about the school of computing** our world-leading researchers, in key areas such as cyber security, programming languages, computational intelligence and data science, earned us an outstanding result in the recent research excellence framework (ref); an impressive 100% of our research was classified as either 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent' for impact. strong links with industry underpin all our work, notably with cisco systems inc, microsoft, oracle, ibm, nvidia, erlang solutions, gchq and google.