Computing Including Foundation Year

About this programme

Our BSc (Hons) Computing (Including Foundation Year) encompasses the core technologies and essential skills that you’ll need for a long and varied career in the IT industry and teaches you how to apply them directly to solve real-world problems. This forward-looking IT course prepares you to think critically, work practically, and build industry-ready skills, helping you start and progress in a successful technology career from day one at university. If you’ve enjoyed studying computer-based subject at A-Level or BTEC, or even if you’ve just had fun playing around with your own computer or using technology for solving problems, this is the course for you. The course is “hands-on” while also providing theoretical learning that is tied very closely to practice. Computing courses at USW are ranked top in Wales for teaching quality and academic support in the National Student Survey 2025 . Future-proofing for the challenges faced by the profession and to allow you to enter and progress through the ranks of an organisation or company. Our course is based upon our Degree Apprenticeship course that is designed by and for major employers in the computing industry. We are proud that this course not only makes you analytical (a “thinker”) but also gives you the practical skills (a “doer”) that are required to succeed. We’ll help you to develop your judgement and decision-making across technical, managerial, and legal skills. In your Foundation Year, you’ll explore real-world challenges in computing, develop programming and data skills, and build confidence, teamwork, and prob