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Study Computer Science at Royal Holloway

Understand what matters in every field of digital life

Develop your core skills ready for a career tackling the opportunities and challenges of technology, and help shape the future of our digital society.

There’s never been a better time to study at the heart of digital life on a degree pathway that complements your pick of specialism.

Our progressive curriculum will give you the knowledge and technical skills that employers need, and introduce you to pioneering ideas and technologies to realise your ambitions.

Through hands-on projects, you’ll learn to innovate and solve problems, gain technical skills and knowledge ready to go out and transform global society and the economy.

You can also further enrich your degree by taking an integrated Year in Industry to gain experience and real work skills.

Reasons to choose Computer Science at Royal Holloway

  • Learn with internationally renowned experts who bring their cutting-edge research and experience of industry into their teaching
  • Our degrees are accredited by the British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute for IT
  • We are a Top 25 UK Computer Science department (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2025)
  • Top 20 in the UK for graduate prospects (The Complete University Guide, 2026)
  • Our BSc and MSci in Computer Science (Cyber Security) have full certification by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)