School of Computing (Robert Gordon University) School of Computing (Robert Gordon University) The Robert Gordon University's School of Computing Science and Digital Media is one of the four schools in the Faculty of Design and Technology at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland and offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, as well as a PhD programme. The School has been recognised as the best computer science department of any UK modern university in the Good University Guide 2009. The School's research areas include Information Retrieval and Interaction, Computer Science Education, Knowledge Based Systems, Computational Intelligence, Graphics and Imaging, and Mathematics for
Robert Gordon University future of UK higher education recommended major expansion, which led to the renaming of the institution to Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology to suggest its increasing role in higher education rather than further education. As well as new "plate-glass" universities, reforms following the report created the polytechnics in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It also created the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) to allow non-university institutions (like the polytechnics and Scottish central institutions) to run programmes that graduated students with CNAA degrees. The Institute's first CNAA degree programmes began in pharmacy in 1967, then in engineering, chemistry and physics