BSc Data Science and Analytics

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Oct 2026
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Data is the lifeblood of our society. From medicine to government offices, and market research to the environment, the collection and analysis of data is crucial to understanding how to improve, create and guide products and services across the globe.

Harvard Business Review recently described the job of Data Scientist as “the sexiest job of the 21st century”. Data science is about doing some detective work and carrying out the investigations needed to inform important decisions and to predict new trends. Technology is growing and evolving at an incredible speed, and both the rate of growth of data we generate and the devices we use to process it can only increase.

At Essex, we help you to understand how utilising the speed and processing-power of computers can assist in using data to make better decisions. You discover the new methods and the smart, unusual questions needed to make sense of both structured and unstructured data.

Your course balances solid theory with practical application through exploring topics including:

  • Mathematical skills
  • Computer science and programming
  • Statistics and operations research
  • Artificial intelligence, databases and information retrieval
  • Ethical issues around the use and processing of data
  • Specialist skills in the areas of big data, data analytics and data science

A successful career in data science requires you to possess truly interdisciplinary knowledge, so we ensure that you graduate with a wide-ranging yet specialised set of skills in this area. You are taught within our Department of Mathematical Sciences and our School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.

Data scientists are required in every sector, carrying out statistical analysis or mining data on social media, so our course can open the door to almost any industry, from health, to government, to publishing.

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Modules

  • Compulsory modules
  • Team Project Challenge
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Statistics I
  • Introduction to Programming
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Introduction to Databases
  • Calculus
  • Compulsory modules
  • Team Project Challenge
  • Databases and Information Retrieval
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • Statistics II
  • MA214-5-SP or MA216-5-SP
  • Optimisation (Linear Programming)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Matrices and Complex Numbers
  • Mathematics Careers and Employability
  • Compulsory modules
  • Capstone Project: Mathematics
  • Linear Regression Analysis
  • Applied Statistics
  • Information Retrieval
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Mathematics Careers and Employability
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    Use our magical AI system, to check your admission chances for this course.
    Tuition fee
    Apply by
    Start date
    Oct 2025
    Oct 2026
    Duration
    Campus
    Mode of study
    Fees and deadlines depend on the selected options. Fees and currency conversion are approximate.
    Offer response
    1 weeks after your application is submitted