MSc Applied Data Science and Cyber Security
MSc Applied Data Science and Cyber Security is a new masters designed for those wanting to learn the skills required to gain insights from data and an understanding of cyber security.
The conversion course enables students with little prior exposure of programming, machine learning or cyber security to develop expertise and valuable skills that will prepare you for a career in the growing data science and information security industry where there is significant demand for skilled personnel, both in the UK and internationally. The importance of data science and cyber security grows year on year, with sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, finance and others reliant on the insights that accurate data capture and analysis can provide; at the same time there is an ever-growing need to engage with related cyber security and privacy issues.
The course will introduce you to a variety of languages essential to Data Science, including Python, and how to use different software packages such as scikit-learn. You will develop your understanding of how a wide variety of data science methods work, including clustering, regression, decision trees, and neural networks, learning how to apply them through hands-on examples. You’ll also build a sound knowledge of cyber security and data privacy, including the particular privacy challenges faced by many data science applications as well as ongoing issues such as detection of security events.
Throughout your studies you will work with data and gain the ability to design and implement data analysis to find smart solutions for real-world problems. You’ll learn how to deal with large datasets, interpret and communicate results in the presence of bias and uncertainty, and build your range of soft skills for making presentations and writing. You will also explore the multitude of ethical, social, and political issues, the implication of artificial intelligence and advanced computing, and acquire the skills to analyse and critically evaluate ethical issues.
You will be taught by world experts in one of the top Computer Science departments in the UK, ranked among the top 25 UK Computer Science Department (The Complete University Guide, 2024), and the Information Security Department, home of the first university cyber-security group in the world (the Information Security Group, established in 1990). Our teachers are specialists in their field and much of our curriculum and research is informed by and closely linked with industry. You will learn about the most recent industrial developments in data science, machine learning and cyber security, with guest speakers from our extensive network of industry contacts, including from our extensive network of MSc alumni.
You’ll graduate with capable skills to tackle complex problems, extract insights from data, uncover otherwise-hidden information, and use it to make informed decisions, with an awareness of cyber security with its applications, giving you a competitive edge to pursue a successful career.
The Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway has a rich history in the development of machine learning with members of the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning (set up in 1998 as the Computer Learning Research Centre) making key contributions to the development of support vector machines, conformal predictors, reinforcement learning and other important machine learning and artificial intelligence methods. The Information Security Group at Royal Holloway is a UK Academic Centre of Excellence for cyber security research and holds a gold award as a Centre for Academic Excellence in cyber security education from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
From time to time, we make changes to our courses to improve the student and learning experience. If we make a significant change to your chosen course, we’ll let you know as soon as we can.
MSc Applied Data Science and Cyber Security is a new masters designed for those wanting to learn the skills required to gain insights from data and an understanding of cyber security.
The conversion course enables students with little prior exposure of programming, machine learning or cyber security to develop expertise and valuable skills that will prepare you for a career in the growing data science and information security industry where there is significant demand for skilled personnel, both in the UK and internationally. The importance of data science and cyber security grows year on year, with sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, finance and others reliant on the insights that accurate data capture and analysis can provide; at the same time there is an ever-growing need to engage with related cyber security and privacy issues.
The course will introduce you to a variety of languages essential to Data Science, including Python, and how to use different software packages such as scikit-learn. You will develop your understanding of how a wide variety of data science methods work, including clustering, regression, decision trees, and neural networks, learning how to apply them through hands-on examples. You’ll also build a sound knowledge of cyber security and data privacy, including the particular privacy challenges faced by many data science applications as well as ongoing issues such as detection of security events.
Throughout your studies you will work with data and gain the ability to design and implement data analysis to find smart solutions for real-world problems. You’ll learn how to deal with large datasets, interpret and communicate results in the presence of bias and uncertainty, and build your range of soft skills for making presentations and writing. You will also explore the multitude of ethical, social, and political issues, the implication of artificial intelligence and advanced computing, and acquire the skills to analyse and critically evaluate ethical issues.
You will be taught by world experts in one of the top Computer Science departments in the UK, ranked among the top 25 UK Computer Science Department (The Complete University Guide, 2024), and the Information Security Department, home of the first university cyber-security group in the world (the Information Security Group, established in 1990). Our teachers are specialists in their field and much of our curriculum and research is informed by and closely linked with industry. You will learn about the most recent industrial developments in data science, machine learning and cyber security, with guest speakers from our extensive network of industry contacts, including from our extensive network of MSc alumni.
You’ll graduate with capable skills to tackle complex problems, extract insights from data, uncover otherwise-hidden information, and use it to make informed decisions, with an awareness of cyber security with its applications, giving you a competitive edge to pursue a successful career.
The Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway has a rich history in the development of machine learning with members of the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning (set up in 1998 as the Computer Learning Research Centre) making key contributions to the development of support vector machines, conformal predictors, reinforcement learning and other important machine learning and artificial intelligence methods. The Information Security Group at Royal Holloway is a UK Academic Centre of Excellence for cyber security research and holds a gold award as a Centre for Academic Excellence in cyber security education from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
From time to time, we make changes to our courses to improve the student and learning experience. If we make a significant change to your chosen course, we’ll let you know as soon as we can.
