Course

If you didn’t get the grades you were looking for, USW offers a foundation year in Civil Engineering, paving the way to the BSc (Hons) degree. This comprehensive program equips students with practical skills and academic training for careers in structural design, project management, transport engineering, and sustainable development.

The unique and exclusive delivery route, run in partnership with the English Football League in the Community (EFLitC), allows students to study in the workplace.

This course combines real-world club experience with practical, applied learning to build skills, confidence, and impact. Learning will take place through placement activity at an EFL club charity, weekly guided study with a designated mentor and residential study visits.

The Cert HE in Community Health and Wellbeing offers the opportunity to experience university life, develop strong study skills for higher education, and begin to engage in professional development for health careers.

Ranked Top in Wales for student satisfaction by the National Student Survey 2025, our BCS-accredited Computer Science degree prepares you for a career in secure software development. Gain practical skills through real-world projects, developing safe and reliable solutions to real-life problems.

Accredited by the British Computer Society and created in partnership with industry and students. This programme ensures graduates are creative and capable, able to build the future with intelligent, effective, efficient, and reliable systems. The foundation year provides a method of entering this exciting field for those who are perhaps returning to study, or otherwise need to build their confidence.

Computing skills are desirable and transferrable; create a bright future career with this practical course.

This forward-looking IT course prepares you to think critically, work practically, and build industry-ready skills, helping you start and progress in a successful technology career from day one at university.

Hone your skills as a construction project manager, learning how to be the bridge between client and contractor and deliver projects on time and budget.

A good Construction Project Manager is essential. Every project, whether a new build or renovation, residential development, skyscraper, or infrastructure project, needs managing to ensure it is completed on time, within budget and to high quality. The Construction Project Manager works closely with the client, design team and the contractor.

Learn professional counselling skills through theoretical knowledge and practical experience in this BA Counselling and Therapeutic Practice. With real-life placements and a key focus on therapeutic relationship, self-awareness, ethics and various therapeutic styles, you’ll be all set for a fulfilling career in counselling.

You’ll explore evidence-based creative practice while completing projects with experienced professionals in healthcare, education and community environments. From your first year, you’ll develop practical skills, confidence and independence, preparing you to work with diverse groups with a focus on improving wellbeing.

Dive deep into the causes and consequences of crime, uncover the inner workings of the criminal justice system, and put your skills to the test with real-life cases.

Prepare for a career in Criminology while building the academic skills needed to succeed at university.

Dive into the complex world of criminal behaviour in our course that blends the study of criminology with psychology.

We believe in learning by doing. In our Criminology with Youth Justice BSc, you’ll not only learn the theory, but also how to apply it to live cases, cold cases and real-world case studies, so you finish your studies ready for work.

Prepare for a career in Criminology and Youth Justice while building the academic skills needed to succeed at university. 

The course will provide opportunity for healthcare professionals to be forward thinking practitioners who are armed with ability to utilise current evidence-based practice and to problem solve in a more autonomous manner.

Whether crime happens online or is organised through digital channels, digital forensics is key to bringing perpetrators to justice. When you study a BSc in digital forensics, you’ll learn to access, gather, and interpret data to uncover the truth and serve as an expert witness.

Learn the skills and knowledge needed to work in Digital Forensic Units (DFUs) and Incident Response teams on this state-of -the-art course, gaining specialist skills and knowledge as you develop the practical and professional skills desired by employers in digital forensics, law enforcement and the wider corporate and cyber security sectors.