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MSc Mobile App Development
Programme overview
What you'll study
This programme includes core and optional modules. To earn a master’s degree, you must complete 180 credits. Modules are worth 15 or 30 credits. Full-time students complete 60 credits per semester and finish in one year. Part-time students complete 30 credits per semester and finish in two years.
See the programme specification for full details.
Entry requirements
To apply, you must meet all of the following:
Qualifications or experiences
English language
If you are from a majority English-speaking country or have previously studied in English (university or school), no proof is needed.
Otherwise, you should provide a valid certificate, such as Duolingo, EnglishScore, IELTS, TOEFL, or equivalent, with an overall IELTS Academic equivalent of 5.5 and no component below 5.5. If you don't already have one, you can take an English test on your mobile phone.
Skills and outcomes
Professional development
Real-world application
Why study at LSI?
Because you want to become an AI-native leader.
Specialist in
tech & innovation
LSI’s focus on digital technology, innovation and entrepreneurship connects what you study with the challenges of leading change.
Explore technology alongside the commercial and organisational decisions that determine its value.
AI-enhanced
learning
LSI’s award-winning AI platform acts as a 24/7 learning companion, helping you work through material, test your understanding, receive formative feedback, and identify gaps earlier.
The system provides multimedia explanations, interactive tasks, formative checks, and feedback on your work, while academic staff remain responsible for judgement, standards, and support.
Regular
one-to-one support
Use regular one-to-one academic conversations to question ideas, discuss difficult material and get guidance on your progress.
Alongside subject support, your personal academic tutor helps you navigate the demands of postgraduate study.
A network of
ambitious peers
You'll study alongside ambitious, curious people. Those relationships rarely end at graduation.
Your peers and the wider LSI alumni network become collaborators, sounding boards, and the contacts who open doors long after you've finished.
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Career prospects
Application developers find their careers highly satisfying due to their high earning potential, career prospects, and ability to work with cutting-edge technology. They have excellent career opportunities as a mobile web developer in Android and iOS app development companies, Android and iOS platform development companies, software companies, the healthcare sector, the travel and tourism industry, the entertainment industry, financial services, media organisations, finance and retail industries, in technology companies that develop and maintain mobile application ecosystems or as IT consultants offering your expertise to the broader market.
Graduates of this programme may be employed as front end interface developers, technical lead cloud services, frontend developer, technology analysts, java application developers, mobile software engineer, iOS software engineer, mobile application developer, iOS application developers, android application developer, lead java developer, javascript & jquery developer.
There are a number of top mobile app development companies you can join, including Microsoft, airbnb, Naked, Goji Labs, Netguru, KitelyTech, Mercury Development, Sidebench, Blue Label, Emerline, Appinventiv, Applify, TechAhead, Cheesecake Labs .
Learn smarter with AI
Work through course material with AI-supported explanations and practice, then deepen your understanding through discussion and guidance from academic staff.
Virtual
private tutor
This isn’t a chatbot. It’s a tutor that guides you through hands-on learning, at your pace. Read, watch or listen anytime, on your phone during a commute or workout, or on your laptop at 2am before a deadline.
Through text, audio, visual feedback, formative questions, and assignment critique, the tutor helps you keep moving between scheduled sessions with academic staff.
Master
the theory with AI
Every lesson adjusts to your pace and what you already know, so you're never stuck on the obvious or lost in the difficult.
Most subjects don't run in a straight line. Our Interactive Knowledge Graph maps how concepts connect and build on each other, then tracks what you've mastered and what still needs work, so nothing important slips through the cracks.
Instant feedback
for assignments
Get useful feedback the moment you submit, instead of waiting days to find out where you went wrong, then act on it while the work is still fresh in your mind.
This doesn't replace your tutors or academic judgement. Detailed feedback from faculty can be requested right after AI feedback. What it adds is momentum: you keep moving forward instead of stalling between submission and review.
Role-play
with AI
Rehearse the high-stakes moments before they're real. In AI-driven role-play, you make decisions in lifelike professional scenarios and see how they play out, so you build confidence where it's safe to get things wrong.
Judgement comes from practice, not theory alone. You might lead a tense project review, work through an ethical AI dilemma, negotiate a technical trade-off, or troubleshoot a system failure against the clock, each scenario repeatable and tied to what you're learning.
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