DPT: Computer Science and Management Science (BSc Hons) (UTCMPMS)

Jump to: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Before making your course choices, make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your Student Support Team.

The course Business Research Methods 2: Research Design and Application BUST08056 is compulsory for students who plan to choose the Business Honours Dissertation BUST10158 in 4th Year.

Compulsory courses

Informatics 2 - Foundations of Data Science

Must be passed

Informatics 2 - Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures

Must be passed

Discrete Mathematics and Probability

Must be passed

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Must be passed

Course options

This course is compulsory for students who plan to choose the Business Honours Dissertation BUST10158 in 4th Year.

Business Research Methods 2: Research Design and Application

AND

Accounting for Business 2

Principles of Finance

Marketing

Business Economics

International Business: Globalisation and Trade 2A

International Business and the Multinational Enterprise 2B

Human Resource Management 2

Organisational Behaviour 2

Business Simulation

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Fundamentals of Programming for Business Applications

Planning for a start-up

Innovation and Enterprise

Strategic Marketing Insights

AND

These are courses in all Schools other than Medicine, or the Centre for Open Learning.

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Before making your course choices make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your Student Support Team.

Some third year courses are prerequisites for specific fourth year courses, you are advised to consider your plans for fourth year when making your course choices.

The Preparing For Your Dissertation BUST09007 course is compulsory for students who plan to choose Business Honours Dissertation BUST10158 in 4th Year.

Students who are members of Edinburgh University Formula Student may request a concession from the School Curriculum Approval Officer (SCAO) to replace System Design Project INFR09032 (SDP) with Informatics Experiential Learning (Level 10) INFR10084 (IEL-10). Please contact your Student Support Team to gain approval from the IEL-10 Course Organiser, confirming your eligibility for that course, and they will then pass to the SCAO.

Compulsory courses

Management Science and Operations Analytics

Mathematical Programming in Advanced Analytics

Course options

Students may not take both Entrepreneurship and Innovation Project INFR09053 (EIP) and System Design Project INFR09032 (SDP).

System Design Project

Informatics Large Practical

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Project

AND

These are Computer Science courses in both semesters open to third-year undergraduate students on Computer Science joint degrees.

Algorithms and Data Structures

Software Testing

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

Elements of Programming Languages

Compiling Techniques

Computer Security

Computer Communications and Networks

Computer Architecture and Design

Operating Systems

Introduction to Databases

Machine Learning

Introduction to Mobile Robotics

Distributed Systems

AND

These are courses in all Schools other than Medicine, Veterinary Studies, or the Centre for Open Learning, and include courses normally taken by fourth-year students. In the case that this DPT option is chosen, you are advised to obtain permission to take the course from the Course Organiser, and have the course choice approved by your student support team.

AND

Professional Issues (Level 10)

AND

Decision Analytics BUST10133 is a compulsory course in the fourth year of this degree and may not be taken in third year.

Courses are only permitted under this option if the 'normal year taken' is 'year 3 undergraduate'. For suggested Year 3 courses, see the third year of the DPT for the Business Management MA (Hons) or Business with Decision Analytics MA (Hons) degrees.

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Before making your course choices, make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your Student Support Team.

Select your project options from either Group A (School of Informatics) or Group B (Business School) below. The Preparing For Your Dissertation BUST09007 course was compulsory for students who plan to choose the Business Honours Dissertation BUST10158 in 4th Year.