Gain the expertise to maintain digital and technology strategies and learn to investigate and implement solutions with this Masters degree apprenticeship.

About the apprenticeship

How long: 2 years, part-time

Start date: October

Course level: Level 7

University award: MSc Digital and Technology Solutions Specialist (Software Engineering or Data Analytics)

How much it costs: funded through the employer

Course summary

• Develop and deliver complex software solutions with contemporary tools.
• Design secure and scalable services for web, mobile, PC and mainframe platforms.
• Gain a masters degree to demonstrate your skills and develop your career further.
• Choose either the software engineering or data analytics pathway

This course is suitable whether you'd like to formalise your experience with a postgraduate qualification, or if you'd like to upskill or cross skill into a new area. 

This course meets the digital and technology solutions professional apprenticeship standard.

How you learn

This course is designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

You'll accelerate your technical proficiency while developing team-building, leadership and management abilities. 

You will learn through: 

• work-based projects
• taught modules
• evaluating technology designs
• software engineering or data analytics tasks
• team management 

Applied learning

The course is structured around applied learning. This links your studies to real-world situations.

You will progress through the course following successful achievement of assessments, which address the learning outcomes for each module and allow you to complete the course.

You will also complete an endpoint assessment towards the end of the apprenticeship.

Campus facilities

You'll study at City Campus, with industry standard computing packages, tools and hardware with remote access when off-campus.

Entry requirements

Apprentices can be existing employees looking to develop their careers, or new applicants to the business.

Applicants must:

• be over 18
• not be in full time education
• have the right to abode in the UK
• meet the course entry requirements

University grades

An undergraduate degree in any subject, graded at 2:2 or above.

Modules

The programme adopts a blended learning approach with modules delivered through a combination of lectures, practical work and independent study.

Throughout the course, you will study:

• Designing and developing software applications - Software Engineering Pathway
• Software engineering practices  - Software Engineering Pathway
• Tools and Techniques for Data Analytics - Data Analytics Pathway
• Data Management Project - Data Analytics Pathway
• Managing people, projects and teams 
• Advanced practitioner inquiry
• Consultancy project / Independent Study

Module and assessment information for future years is displayed as currently validated and may be liable to change.