Computing degrees in Clearing at Goldsmiths

Choosing Computing at Goldsmiths means you'll be working on live briefs, developing technical skills, and exploring your creative potential.

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Why study Computing at Goldsmiths?

  • You'll benefit from fantastic facilities including a virtual reality lab, state-of-the-art digital fabrication and physical computing spaces, a games lab, and computer suites
  • Teaching is strongly focused on practical work in real-world situations, so you’ll develop excellent technical skills and the ability to respond to live briefs
  • Our degrees will nurture your development not just as a technical expert, but also as a creative thinker, allowing you to learn and explore through a combination of technology and imagination
  • On some of our degrees you'll have the opportunity to take a work placement year, providing you with valuable experience in the industry and contacts for the future
  • The ever-growing prominence of technology means that there are lots of career options for computing graduates – our former students are now working for companies like IBM, Microsoft, Google and the BBC
  • Goldsmiths has a very active student-run tech society, Hacksmiths, that runs workshops, meet-ups and games jams, providing the opportunity to explore technology while meeting like-minded people from across the university 

Everyone is really nice at Goldsmiths – whether they are staff or students, in class or outside. It feels like a family to me.

Diana, computer science student

Diana, computer science student
A close-up of a computer screen showing human motion capture points, with a person holding their arms out in the background.

Computing facilities at Goldsmiths include a VR lab equipped with a full multi-camera motion capture studio, similar to that used in the making of Avatar and The Last of Us

A Goldsmiths computer suite, featuring rows of shiny iMac computers, interspersed with red chairs.

The Goldsmiths computer suites are equipped with more than 200 iMacs running Windows 10 and MacOS in parallel

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Why choose Goldsmiths, University of London?

Goldsmiths was founded in 1891 and has been part of the University of London for 120 years. Alongside this history comes an innovative and creative approach to the subjects you can study, and a commitment to social and environmental justice.

As a Goldsmiths student you'll enjoy a single-site campus in New Cross, South East London. It's in Zone 2 and just 10 minutes by train to Central or East London. So you can access the best of the world's top student city while still enjoying a friendly and supportive student community.

An aerial view of the Goldsmiths campus, with the College Green in the foreground and the back of the redbrick Richard Hoggart Building in the background

Enjoy a single-site campus experience just 10 minutes by train to Central or East London

London's Piccadilly Circus by night, featuring a London Underground sign in the foreground and big neon screens in the background

Make the most of being in London, voted the world's top city to be a student (QS Best Student Cities 2024)

There's lots of diversity, and so many people from so many different places. I think that's what makes it so friendly.

Simas, computer science student

Simas, computer science student

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