Bachelor of Data Science

The Bachelor of Data Science programme is designed to facilitate learners with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to address requirements and problems requiring Data Science expertise and to advise businesses, industry, academic institutions and government organs on planning and making smart, well-informed investments. The emerging tools and trends in Big Data analysis and Artificial Intelligence continuously inform curriculum development, implementation and knowledge dissemination within the philosophy of openness and breaking down boundaries and barriers to learning in all their forms. Data science skills qualify one to work as a data scientist within a wide array of fields, from investigative journalism where the learner can analyse data to find stories, to financial modelling, financial fraud prediction, urban planning, forensics, agriculture, social media analysis, remote sensing, international development, speech recognition, cybersecurity and many others. The programme is rigorous and designed to train high quality graduates with requisite professional and technical skills to effectively handle problems of data science, equipping learners with knowledge and skills on big data analytics, data mining, computational intelligence, machine learning, statistical learning, algorithms at scale and large scale databases optimisation.