About us

In 1957 the University of Leeds was one of the first universities in the UK to buy a computer.

This was a revolutionary development in university science and engineering, and the springboard for academic computer science in the university.

Today the School is ranked in the top 10 computing departments in the UK based on the quality of its research (latest Research Assessment Exercise); an impressive 80% of research activity rated as internationally excellent or World leading.

We are also ranked 12th in the UK for Computer Science in The Sunday Times league table.

We offer a number of undergraduate degrees in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Information Technology. At postgraduate level we have masters degrees in Computer Science with Cloud Computing, Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems.

An Industrial Advisory Board ensures that industrial partners provide input into the ongoing development and review of our courses to ensure that our courses are inline with employer needs.

Our postgraduate research (PhD) students are undertaking a range of projects linked directly to the work within our two research institutes.

• Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems
• Institute for Computational and Systems Science

Our high research ratings mean that you will be supervised and taught by world-class, research-active academics on courses that are at the leading edge of thinking in the field.