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Hi everyone,

Next year I'm planning to study the following:
Btec IT, Btec applied science and A-levels media.

Is it possible for me to get into a decent uni to study computer science for Ai or cyber security?

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Reply 1

BradfordRep

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by Playbottl

Hi everyone,
Next year I'm planning to study the following:
Btec IT, Btec applied science and A-levels media.
Is it possible for me to get into a decent uni to study computer science for Ai or cyber security?

Hi there @Playbottl ,

I hope you're well. Here at the University of Bradford we do in fact offer a BSc Computer Science for Artifical Intelligence degree and the BSc with an Integrated Foundation Year.

We also have Computer Science for Cyber Security and the same degree but with an Integrated Foundation Year.

The degrees all range from 4-5 years and the UCAS Points do vary too the max required being 112. The total can be achieved with both A-Levels and BTECS which you are planning to study. I hope you can add us to your list for consideration and if you need any questions answering feel free to ask! 🙂

~Zaynab
University of Bradford

Reply 2

DRGN3455

Original post

by Playbottl

Hi everyone,
Next year I'm planning to study the following:
Btec IT, Btec applied science and A-levels media.
Is it possible for me to get into a decent uni to study computer science for Ai or cyber security?

I don’t know if BTEC IT will be enough (I don’t know what content is in it but still)

You’ll most likely need A-Level Maths or equivalent (it’s required by 90%+ of unis for CS) (again mb BTEC IT is enough but idk just go and check on a bunch of uni websites)

I think historically A-Levels are just respected more by unis than BTEC and so AL students just get more offers(from what I’ve heard)

Why not just study AL Maths, Chem/Physics/Bio and computer science?

I’m aware A-Level CS isn’t offered everywhere but it’s most likely going to be extremely useful for studying CS at uni

Personally I’m in Yr 13 (I took AL Maths, Physics and computer science) (The OCR NEA for CS is a bit of a pain cause of just how much there is to do but it’ll be fine (I’ve heard AQA is worse))

Already got 2 offers from decent unis as well (AAB and ABB)

Hope any of this is useful. I typed this in like 5 mins sorry for any mistakes.