MSc Optical Communications and Signal Processing

This programme comprises six core units, followed by a substantial capstone project that starts after the second term and completes during the summer. The project will allow you to showcase the competencies of an engineer in your chosen discipline. You will bring together everything you have learned during the taught component of your MSc studies, working on a challenging real-world problem in a team of engineers. This will synthesise the skills and knowledge you've acquired so far as you work on identifying an important challenge and coming up with a range of possible solutions.

Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our MSc in Optical Communications and Signal Processing.

You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or international equivalent in:

• Communications Engineering
• Computer Networks
• Computer Science and Technologies
• Computer Systems Engineering
• Electrical Engineering with Management
• Electronic System Engineering
• Electronic and Information Engineering
• Electronic Information Science and Technology
• Electronic Science and Technology
• Electronic and Electrical Engineering
• Information and Communications Technologies
• Information Engineering
• Microelectronic Engineering
• Optical Engineering
• Optical Information Science and Technologies
• Physics
• Telecommunications.

Other Engineering degrees might be considered where a UK minimum score of 60% (or international equivalent) is achieved in 3 modules from the following units:

• Physics
• Analog Electronic Circuits
• Communication networks
• Computer programming
• Digital Electronics Circuits
• Digital Signal Processing
• Electromagnetic fields and waves
• Electronic circuits
• High frequency electronic circuits
• Internet Technology
• Microelectronics
• Microprocessors
• Microwave Technology
• Optical communication
• Optics
• Principles of Communications
• Programming languages
• Quantum Mechanics
• Quantum Information
• Quantum Physics
• Semiconductor devices
• Signals and Systems.

We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.

We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement.

If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional relevant work experience or qualifications. If you have at least one of the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing a relevant postgraduate qualification.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.