MSc Health Data Science and Statistics

You will take four core modules and two optional modules depending upon your interests and career aspirations, and complete a masters-level project over the summer on a topic of your choice. Your MSc project can be on healthcare data analytics, health informatics or clinical studies or be a multidisciplinary mix of these areas.

Throughout the programme, you will learn how to master sophisticated analytics techniques and professional software, including R and the tidyverse, Python, and additional software such as SQL/NoSQL databases, to handle and exploit big data, and to work as part of a project team. You will develop conceptual, and practical understanding of topics including Big Data, medical statistics and machine learning. You will gain experience of the design and analysis of health studies, and learn how to provide impactful healthcare insights from a range of medical and clinical studies.