UG Year 4 information
Welcome week
- On arrival in September it is Welcome week. You should ensure you attend this week's events.
- Please pay particular attention to the times put aside for me to meet you when I can check your course unit choices and and address any other concerns you may have.
MEng And Fourth Year Tutor
Hello, the MEng programme manager, Fourth Year and MEng tutor is Tim Morris, Tim Morris (click for contact details).
The role of the fourth Year tutor is to provide general support for fourth year students, to monitor their progress, and to help you get smoothly and successfully through your final year. You can talk to me anytime, but emailing to make an appointment is preferable, if it's a non-urgent matter.
Tutors are available for an Open Hour once a week when students can talk to them.
Students arrive back from their summer placement into the fourth year and need to adjust to being effectively a post-graduate who will spend almost all the time with other Masters level students. In fact the PGT pages will often prove to be more useful than undergraduate pages for information.
In the fourth year you will take a total of 130 credits made up of 25 credits you have already started as they are part of your summer placement and seven 15 credit modules. Your year is again split into two semesters, but now, each semester is two six week periods. There is no reading week but each six week period has a catch-up week in the sixth week.
- Welcome Week
- Semester 1 (September - January)
- Period 1
- Period 2
- Semester 2 (February - June)
- Period 3
- Period 4
There are two activities left over from the summer placement COMP40901. You must hand-in your placement report by the 30th September 2022 and finally there is a seminar to give which will hopefully be scheduled in October.
Period/Event | Dates |
Welcome Weeks + Summer Reports Due |
w/c 19th September + 30th September |
Deadline for Course Unit Registration |
10:00am on 23rd September |
Semester 1 Period 1 course unit teaching |
26 September – 28th October |
Deadline for Semester 1 Period 2 course unit changes |
23rd September |
MEng Seminars |
October https://studentnet.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/year4/project/assigned.php?category=MEng |
Coursework Completion Period 1 |
31st October - 4th November |
Semester 1 Period 2 course unit teaching |
7 November - 11th December |
Coursework Completion Period 2 |
12th December - 18th December |
Vacation |
19 December 2022 - 15 January 2023 |
Deadline for Sem. 2 Periods 3 & 4 course unit changes |
th February, 2022 |
Semester 1 Periods 1 & 2 examinations |
16th January - 27th January 2023 |
Semester 2 Period 3 course unit teaching |
30th January – 12th March |
Coursework Completion Period 3 |
6th March -12th March |
Semester 2 Period 4 course unit teaching |
13th March - 14th May |
Vacation |
3rd April - 16th April |
Coursework Completion Period 4 |
8th May - 14th May |
Semester 2 Periods 3 & 4 examinations |
15th May - 7th June |
Modules in the fourth year are six weeks long with each consisting of 5 weeks of lectures and laboratories followed by a catch up week. In each six week period you are expected to take one or two (never more than two!) COMP4XXXX, COMP6XXXX or other modules which are all worth 15 credits each for a total of 75 credits. There are two compulsory modules worth 40 credits:
- COMP40901 The Summer Placement
- Plagiarism and Malpractice Unit. Zero credit course taken online (Blackboard) during Welcome Week or as soon as possible afterwards.
- COMP40411 Aspire-your future-a non-credit bearing careers unit
- Period 4: MCEL40042 Business Feasibility Study
In addition it is compulsory to take exactly one of the small set of business or enterprise modules (subject to changes) which are worth 15 credits:
- BMAN73271 Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support.
- BMAN70391 Strategic Project Organising
- BMAN60422 Data Analytics for Business Decision Making.
- BMAN71652 Information and Knowledge Management.
The full "Year 4 MEng" timetable can be found here.