MSc Data Analytics (with Placement)

About the course

This course is specifically aimed at International students, supporting those wishing to gain practical work based experiential learning. Together with studying your chosen course we are offering an additional 6 month placement opportunity, making the course 18 months in length. This allows students with limited experience to put into practice the skills and techniques developed throughout the Master’s degree.

Our Master's course is designed to meet the demand for a new kind of IT specialist with the skills and knowledge in data science.

The total demand in ‘big data’ users is set to rise to around 644,000 across all industries. More connectivity means more data and UK companies are leading the way in collecting, processing and understanding it. It’s estimated that 31,000 people work in specialist big data roles in the UK and the talent pipeline, together with demand, should see that increase by 243% over the next 5 years.*

In order to address these demands, given the large amount of data collected by all kinds of organisations, graduates of the course aims to equip graduates with an understanding of:

statistics
data mining techniques
big data and associated file systems
data visualisation

Our aim is for you to graduate from this course with the ability to combine this knowledge to provide solutions to novel problems associated with the organisation and the analysis of data.

The course seeks to develop the ability to critically evaluate existing and emerging Data Science technology, apply knowledge, understanding and analytical and design skills in support of analytical and big data problems.

Enhance your career

We would expect to see graduates progress to careers in all sectors, such as finance, consulting, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, government and education. Typical job roles would include, business intelligence, data assurance, quality, finance and sales.
You could also go on to further study and the University has many options available for postgraduate research which may interest you.