West Africa / 
Nigeria / Abuja - Universities
African University of Science and Technology
After successful completion of the M.Sc program, students are expected to be fully equipped to play leading roles on the technical side of the IT industry or to pursue a PhD. The Computer Science MSc/Ph.D programs at AUST <mark>provide the students with a strong background in the fundamentals of theory of computation, algorithms and data structures, programming methodology and mainstream computer languages, computer elements and architecture, numerical and symbolic computations and applications.</mark> In addition to the basic courses, students are introduced to important and current research areas in Artificial Intelligence, Visualization and High Performance Computing (HPC), Database and Information Systems, Architecture, Parallel Computing and Systems, as well as Scientific Computing.