Master of Science in Broadband and Optical Communications

A one year master degree in communications engineering, covering optical fibre systems, photonics, network architecture, signal transmission and a technical research project.

Optical communications underpins the physical internet, and the skills are specialised enough that competition for roles is lighter than in general computing.

Master of Science in Broadband and Optical Communications is taught at the Bangor University, a UK university with degree awarding powers. Because the broadband and optical communications master is a degree, it supports an application under the UK Graduate Route, which gives two years of unsponsored work in Britain after the broadband and optical communications master ends, or three years for a doctorate. To claim it after the broadband and optical communications master you must be inside the UK on a valid student visa when you apply. One limit applies to the broadband and optical communications master as to every taught course in Britain: the rules introduced in January 2024 stop taught students bringing a spouse or children as dependants, so the broadband and optical communications master cannot support a family move.

The academic bar for Master of Science in Broadband and Optical Communications is a completed bachelor degree with 60 percent. The English requirement is IELTS 6.0 with no band below 5.5, and tuition for the broadband and optical communications master is recorded at GBP 20,500 a year. Bangor charges no application fee, so applying for the broadband and optical communications master costs you nothing, and no scholarship is recorded against it. the broadband and optical communications master lists four entry windows a cycle. Apply Study Visa manages the the broadband and optical communications master application, the deposit, the offer, the CAS and the UK student visa as one process.