Applied Data Science, MSc / PGDip
Swansea UniversityBay Campus, United Kingdom
Course overview
Our MSc in Applied Data Science is designed to provide appropriate training to students with a non-specialist background to enable them to enhance their future opportunities and play a key role in digital economy. Our programme will educate you to work with, visualise and understand data, encourage statistical thinking and develop data-driven decision-making. In addition, our course will provide the necessary foundation in mathematics, statistics and basic programming skills that are key to a systemic understanding of the complexity of data and its analysis.
It also provides you with key skills in several topics in computer science, such as data mining and machine learning. Our programme is aimed at students who have a degree in any non-highly numerate subject, but who are interested in learning essential data science methods with various applications. Please note, our MSc in Applied Data Science is appropriate for those who do not have an undergraduate degree in the mathematics field (or equivalent).
If you have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) and wish to pursue a data science route within your Masters, please see Data Science, MSc.
Key highlights
- Designed for graduates from non-specialist, non-numerate degree backgrounds
- Foundation training in mathematics, statistics and basic programming
- Covers data mining and machine learning from computer science
- Builds skills in working with, visualising and understanding data
- Develops statistical thinking and data-driven decision-making
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:2 — 2:2.
- Degree: 2nd class — to include ANY
- GCSE: B — to include Mathematics, Science
Scholarships
Chevening Scholarships
International Postgraduate Alumni Bursaries
First Class - £5,000 per year; Second Class, First division - £3,000 per year; Second Class, Second division - £1,000 per year; Taught Masters to Research Degree - £3,000 per year subject to satisfactory progress.
Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarship (SUIPRES)
The SUIPRES Scholarship covers the difference between the International and the Home tuition fee rate for the duration of the PhD/Professional Doctorate programme.
Careers this course leads to
- Data Analyst
- Data Scientist
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Junior Machine Learning Engineer
- Insight Analyst
Cost of study
UK/Home: £10,650 per year | International: £23,050 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Swansea University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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