ACS Semantic Technologies: The University of Manchester

Course description
The term Semantic Technologies is used to describe languages, software, methodologies and models that are aimed at representing and manipulating metadata which encodes explicit meaning. By doing so, theye open up the possibility of using machine processing in order to help us search, organize and understand our data. Semantic Technologies are being most visibly applied in efforts to build a "Semantic Web" - an application of such technologies in a web setting and at web scale.
Semantic Technologies is a pathway that combines intelligent reasoning technologies from the "Logic and Automated Reasoning" theme with web and ontology related topics from the "Advanced Web Technologies" theme. Students chosing this pathway will thus gain insight into both topics, and how they can be used and combined fruitfully in ontology-based applications and the Semantic Web.
Career opportunities
Students following the Semantic Technologies 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 software companies or for healthcare providers who are using or developing Semantic Technologies.
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'