The study programme consists of a set of required courses and a set of elective courses. The required courses enable the student to acquire a solid foundation in distributed systems, software development and information security. The elective set provides a range of courses covering Web technology, data and knowledge engineering, information Security, mobile Computing and multimedia systems. A student chooses elective courses based on his/her interests and advice from academic staff.

To be awarded the MSc in Computer Science degree, a student must acquire a minimum of 30 credits, in which 9 credits come from the compulsory courses and 21 credits from the elective courses.

Required Courses - 9 credit units

CS Programme Electives - minimum 21 credit units from the electives

Code	Title	Level	Units
CS5182	Computer Graphics	P5	3
CS5185	Multimedia Technologies and Applications	P5	3
CS5222	Computer Networks and Internets	P5	3
CS5255	Information Security Workshop	P5	3
CS5281	Internet Application Development	P5	3
CS5286	Algorithms and Techniques for Web Searching	P5	3
CS5288	Cryptography: Theory and Practice	P5	3
CS5289	Pervasive Computing System	P5	3
CS5290	Digital Rights Management	P5	3
CS5294	Information Security Technology Management	P5	3
CS5348	Software Quality Engineering	P5	3
CS5351	Software Engineering	P5	3
CS5367	Computer Games Design	P5	3
CS5481	Data Engineering	P5	3
CS5483	Data Warehousing and Data Mining	P5	3
CS6175	Selected Topics on Virtual Reality	P6	3
CS6183	Image Computing	P6	3
CS6223	Distributed Systems	P6	3
CS6282	Internet and Distributed Systems Programming	P6	3
CS6286	Topics on Computer Communications	P6	3
CS6287	Network and Information Security (exclusive with CS5285)	P6	3
CS6288	Topics on eCommerce Technologies	P6	3
CS6384	Software Development Project Management	P6	3
CS6472	Advanced Multimedia Database	P6	3
CS6482	Topics on Data Engineering	P6	3
CS6483	Mobile Multimedia Systems	P6	3
CS6520	Project	P6	6
CS6534	Guided Study	P6	3
EC5001	Introduction to eCommerce	P5	3
EE5910	Principles of Communications	P5	3

The courses have been included in the list of reimbursable courses for Continuing Education Fund purposes.