Communication Network Planning and Management – (M.Sc.)

The course durations available for study are 12 months or 16 months full-time, or 3 years part-time.

This course is fully accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Communication systems and networks provide a means of linking people and businesses on a global scale and have become vital to modern society. As new technologies develop, communication systems have ever increasing potential, but also become increasingly diverse and complex.

This course is designed to allow you to work in this fast-changing environment and will prepare you to design, install and manage new communication networks where existing ones are no longer able to meet the demand or where there is no existing communications infrastructure. Such networks include global, national, regional, local and company-based systems, and may integrate data, audio, video, multimedia and broadcast information. The growing worldwide demand for technologists who can translate a client´s communication needs and aspirations into a secure and reliable communication network, will open up a range of opportunities.

Our emphasis is on understanding system level principles and on the design and implementation of systems to meet customer requirements, rather than the detailed design of how the individual building blocks of a communication system work. You will therefore probably have a background in some aspect of computing, electronics or communications and an interest in system-level rather than circuit-level design. You will be interested in developing and commissioning a mobile phone network for a new geographical region or introducing wireless network multimedia to a company.