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Computer science at African Future University is online. Projects consider digital public services, payments, and platforms used in African cities, including what happens when connectivity fails. You are marked on the system and on that limit. There is no campus.
Credit hours on this page are the sum of the modules. The university is fully online and online tuition is covered. Examination or administrative fees may still apply. Campus study, where it is offered, is priced separately.
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The school of computing at African Future University supervises the computing modules and the project.
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Tuition is free. Examinations are free. There is no exam fee. Study from anywhere in the world.
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| CS501 | Advanced Algorithms & Data Structures Analyse, design and prove algorithms for problems at scale, from recurrences and amortised structures to network flow, dynamic programming and the limits set by NP-completeness.
| 3 · 30 h |
| CS502 | Software Engineering & Architecture Turn requirements into an architecture a team can build, test and evolve, and record the decisions and trade-offs behind it.
| 3 · 30 h |
| CS503 | Database Systems & Distributed Data Model, query and tune relational data, reason about transactions and isolation, and choose replication, partitioning and NoSQL designs for data at scale.
| 3 · 30 h |
| CS504 | Computer Networks & Cloud Computing Follow a request from the TCP/IP stack to a cloud deployment, then design infrastructure as code that is observable, reliable and costed.
| 3 · 30 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| CS505 | Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Build and evaluate search, supervised, unsupervised and neural models, and assess them for bias, explainability and governance before deployment.
| 3 · 30 h |
| CS506 | Secure Systems & Cryptography Threat-model a system, apply modern cryptography and authentication correctly, fix OWASP Top 10 weaknesses and run a secure development lifecycle.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| CS601 | Distributed Systems & Scalability Reason about time, ordering, consensus and failure, then design scalable architectures using lessons from Dynamo, Spanner and Kafka.
| 3 · 30 h |
| CS602 | Advanced Topics in AI (elective) Study transformers, reinforcement learning and generative models, and take them into production with MLOps, evaluation and safety practice.
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Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 24 months. Teaching language: English. Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
This is a fully online award. You study from your country. No student visa and no campus relocation are required.
Degree tuition for this award is published as £0 / tuition-free on the online pathway. Examination or administrative fees may apply at checkout — never an annual tuition invoice. Check the Fees page for any extras.
Requirements are grouped on this page (academic, English, documents). Equivalent qualifications are considered. English may be waived after prior English-medium study.
Assessment is typically a mix of coursework, projects, and examinations. Doctoral awards include a thesis or dissertation and an oral examination. Details sit in the programme specification and module outlines.
Recognition of the award for local employment, professional licence, or ministry attestation is decided by your employer or regulator. African Future University publishes verification pages for certificates. We do not claim automatic equivalence in every country.
Start an application on this website. Progress is saved from the first step. Admissions: admissions@afutureuni.com.
Recognised & Accredited
| 3 · 30 h |
| CS507 | Human–Computer Interaction Research users, prototype and evaluate interfaces, and design to WCAG 2.2 so that products work for everyone who has to use them.
| 3 · 30 h |
| CS508 | Research Methods in Computing Frame a research question, design experiments and qualitative studies, handle ethics and reproducibility, and write the dissertation proposal.
| 3 · 30 h |
| 3 · 30 h |
| CS603 | MSc Dissertation / Capstone Project An independent, supervised research or engineering project, from agreed proposal and ethics approval to a written dissertation and viva-style presentation.
| 6 · 60 h |