Admissions Tutor: Dr Les Carr
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2630
Email: MSc-Admissions@ecs.soton.ac.uk
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/admissions/pg/
Web Science is a new area of research that analyses the impact of the Web on business, government, law and science itself. Pioneered by ECS in the UK and MIT in the US, Web Science uses multidisciplinary techniques to explore the impact of the Web on all aspects of human society, from the individual right through to a national and global scale.
Programme structure
Semester 1: Foundations of Web science; Hypertext and Web technologies for master’s; Research methods in computing; Research methods group project
Semester 2: Advanced research skills (qualitative); Discourse analysis; Distributed computing systems; Graph theory; Independent disciplinary review; Large-scale distributed systems; Microeconomic theory; Public economics; Internet law; Semantic Web technologies
Semester 3: Three-month independent, individual research project, culminating in a dissertation
Please note: Modules may change (syllabus is updated annually)
Key facts
Entry requirements: First- or upper second-class honours degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline (eg mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science); additional entry requirements for MSc Web Technology are given on our website
Duration: 1 year (full-time)
Assessment: Examinations, written full-time project (design, development or research), dissertation
Start date: October
Intake: 250 (across all programmes)
Applying: University application form with transcripts
Closing date: None, but early application advised
Fees: See programmes fees page.
Careers: Further research; industry; management
Find out more: MSc programme prospectus, research group brochure and www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/admissions/pg/msc