The UWI Mona Campus' Annual Departmental Reports 2022_2023

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING

Table 1. Students registered in the Department of Computing in the last five (5) years.

2018/ 2019

2019/ 2020

2020/ 2021

2021/ 2022

2022/ 2023

LEVEL

Introductory (Year 1)

622

555

523

486

552

Advanced (Years 2 & 3)

432

443

497

500

499

PG. Cert. Applied Data Science PG. Diploma Information Tech. PG. Diploma Applied Data Science

-

2

1 1 2

1

- -

5

- -

-

-

1

1

M.Sc. Computer Science

27 76

22 68

29 57 21

35 74 26

34 62 42

M.Sc. CBMIS

M.Sc. Applied Data Science M.Phil. Computer Science Ph.D. Computer Science Total Postgraduate Population

-

8

9 6

10

7 5

7 5

5 3

5

123

115

123

149

147

Our advanced level student numbers have been stable since 2020/21, but they are about 15.5% up from 2018/19. The trends suggest that we are at about the limit of our capacity for advanced courses. Our introductory level student numbers, on the other hand, reversed the decline seen since 2019/20, and have rebounded to very close to pre-pandemic values. Also of note, is the increase in the numbers in the M.Sc. Applied Data Science programme. The programme has been quite attractive to the corporate sector, and numbers have grown even with a 60% increase in fees since the programme’s inception. Table 2 shows our graduation numbers in various undergraduate majors and pro- grammes. This year we graduated the third cohort of the BSc Software Engineering – Mobile Application Technologies. No research students completed their degrees in the 2022/23 academic year; however, there were seven (7) graduates each from the M.Sc. Computer Science and M.Sc. Applied Data Science programmes.

Table 2: Undergraduate Students Graduating Across Majors in 2022

First Class M/F

Upper Second M/F

Lower Second M/F

Pass M/F

Total M/F

Major

Computer Science (B.Sc.)

15/14

20/12

19/10

6/1

60/37

Computer Science (B.A.)

0/0

1/1

0/0

3/0

4/1

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