The Master of Engineering Science program (COMPES8685) aims to provide specialised postgraduate education in Computer Science and Engineering to practitioners and professionals who already have a broad-based undergraduate computing degree.

The program is flexible, allowing students to choose from a range of advanced electives. This allows students either to pursue a range of different topics or to focus their study in several specific areas. Note that students must have suitable documented background knowledge for any course that they wish to enrol in.

Students will only be admitted to this program if their undergraduate degree includes all of the Group A courses and at least seven of the Group B/C courses. Students with computing degrees that are more than 8 years old are not eligible for the MEngSc program and should consider the MInfSc program instead.

MEngSc students are encouraged to complete their program using Group D courses only. However, they are allowed to study up to 2 Group B/C courses to cover topics not available in their undergraduate degree.

Program Structure

• courses will typically be from Group D
• up to 2 Group B/C courses may be included
• no Group A courses may be included
• up to 2 courses from outside CSE may be included
• no introductory-level non-CSE courses may be included
  (for details, see individual course descriptions)

Entry Requirements

EITHER a 4yr undergraduate degree equivalent to a standard Australian engineering degree in computing, where a distinction average was achieved over the final 2 yrs;

OR a 3yr undergraduate degree equivalent to a standard Australian science degree in computing, with a distinction average over the final 2 yrs, and formal technical work experience in the area of computer science and engineering of more than 1 year.

Applicants for this degree must have completed studies in a broad range of computing areas, including programming in at least 2 high level languages and assembly language, data structures and algorithms, computer architecture, operating systems, software engineering, databases, networks and artificial intelligence.