Welcome to the School of Computer Science
The first degree in Computer Science at St Andrews was awarded in 1971. Today, the School of Computer Science is a centre of excellence for computer science teaching and research, with staff and students from Scotland and all parts of the world. It is a member of SICSA - The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance. You can find our alumni across the world in industry and academia. The School moved into the purpose-built Jack Cole and the refurbished John Honey buildings in 2004, which we are regularly updating with new labs and new teaching spaces.
We offer BSc, MSci, MSc, MPhil, MSc (Res), PhD, and EngD degree programmes, and are active in research in the fundamentals of computer science, networking and distributed systems, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, and software systems engineering. Part of each academic year is our Distinguished Lecture Seminar series, which is approaching its 50th anniversary in 2019.
If you are thinking about studying at St Andrews, you are very welcome to come and visit us to see for yourself. There are visiting days on Wednesdays throughout the year. If you are one of our Alumni please visit our Alumni site for alumni stories and more.
The School endorses the Athena SWAN charter and is actively working towards recognition.
News
- Postgraduate Dinner at Fairmont Hotel
- Postgraduate student, Paul Dobra organised an end of semester celebratory dinner at the Fairmont Hotel in April. The social event marked the end of te [...]
- Immersive Learning Keynote: Dr Alan Miller
- Dr Alan Miller joined other virtual reality educationalists to give an invited keynote talk at the 3rd Immersive Learning Network Conference on Tuesda [...]
- First ever Computer Science Ball
- We would like to cordially invite all staff, students, and alumni to this historic CS event in the making. As you know, other schools in St Andrews ha [...]
- Computer Science: June Graduation 2017
- Congratulations to our Senior Honours Class of 2017, MSci Honours students and our PhD students Dr Anne-Marie Mann, Dr Ildiko Pete, Dr Yuchen Zhao and [...]
- PhD viva success: Long Thai
- Congratulations to Long Thai, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Adam Barker, Internal examiner Dr John Tho [...]
- Best Final Year Student at Lovelace 2017
- We are delighted to congratulate Iveta Dulova, who attended the 10th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, and walked away with the prize for “Best F [...]
- Hot off the press: Type-Driven Development with Idris
- A new book, Type-Driven Development with Idris has just been published by Manning Publications. Written by Dr Edwin Brady, the creator of Idris, Type- [...]
Recent events
- Monads and Lenses – Dr James Cheney
- Colloquium, Seminar: 17th Jul 2017 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (in Cole 1.33a) Talk Title: Monads and Lenses Abstract: Monads are an abstraction that can be used to mathematically model computational effects (among other things [...]
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