**.Reasons to choose Kingston**<br/>- You will gain in-depth understanding of strategies and architectures for designing and developing modern high quality software applications. <br/><br/><br/>- The Management Studies option will develop skills for managing teams and innovation. These skills are often sought after by employers and are invaluable if you aim to start your own business. <br/><br/><br/>- Through a project dissertation, you will study an area of interest in-depth. This can offer valuable industry experience. <br/><br/><br/>**About this course**<br/>You will examine all stages of the software development life cycle at an advanced level. You will study business processes and requirement engineering, software architecture and design aspects, implementation and software construction, testing and quality assurance. You will also develop practical skills for planning and implementing systems development projects. These projects will meet customer needs and integrate software solutions into the business environment. <br/><br/>**Example modules**<br/>- Modelling Enterprise Architectures<br/><br/><br/>- Software Architectures and Programming Models<br/><br/><br/>- Software Quality Engineering<br/><br/><br/>For a full list modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.<br/><br/>**Career opportunities**<br/>Graduates work for organisations such as IBM, Hewlett Packard, Capgemini, JDA Software, Thomson Reuters, GlaxoSmithKline, Axa, BAA, British Telecom, Ernst & Young, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Virgin Media, Sky, and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.