ACS Artificial Intelligence: The University of Manchester

Course description
Artificial Intelligence is a well-established, exciting branch of computer science concerned with methods to make computers, or machines in general, intelligent - so that they are able to learn from experience, to derive implicit knowledge from the one given explicitly, to understand natural languages such as English, Arabic, or Urdu, to determine the content of images, to work collaboratively together, etc. The techniques used in AI are as diverse as the problems tackled: they range from classical logic to statistical approaches to simulate brains.
This pathway reflects the diversity of AI in that it freely combines a number of themes related to AI techniques, namely Natural Language Processing, Logic and Automated Reasoning, Learning from Data, Visual Computing, and Advanced Web Technologies.
Career opportunities
Students following the Artificial Intelligence pathway have all the career choices and options as described for general Advanced Computer Science.
In addition, students of this pathway are ideally placed to work in positions requiring an understanding of modern AI formalism and technologies such as Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Semantic Technologies.  This includes the obvious positions in the games industry, but also positions in finance, commerce, and scientific research, and many more.
Entry requirements
Academic entry qualification:
They require a First or Upper Second class honours degree, or the overseas equivalent, in computer science, or in a joint degree with at least 50% computer science content. Applicants with extensive computer science industrial experience and a good honours degree, or its overseas equivalent, may also be considered for admission.
English language requirements:
All students are required to be proficient in spoken and written English. In order to be accepted onto an MSc programme in the School of Computer Science applicants need to provide evidence of having achieved the required level in one of the following english language qualifications:

• IELTS score of 6.5 minimum (writing 6)
• Internet based TOEFL 100 with 24 in writing
• Computer Based TOEFL 250 with 5 in TWE
• Cambridge Proficiency Grade 'C