Technological and societal changes?have?led to an explosion of digitally available data. Exploiting this?data to its fullest extent,?in order to?improve decision making, increase productivity, and deepen our understanding of scientific questions, is one of today's major challenges. Data science is an emerging discipline that aims to address this challenge. It is a multi-disciplinary domain, where computer science and mathematics play crucial roles, complemented with human-technology interaction, business models and operations management expertise and skills.?

Careers

As a graduate of the??programme offered by?, you will have developed a scientific perspective combined with a practical?approach, that forms?an excellent foundation for a successful career.?There are numerous fields in which computer science is applied, which means that you could find yourself in any number of roles. You will find computer scientists in research laboratories, banks, (government) organizations, hospitals, multinationals and internet companies, to name a few.?

Most graduates start their careers with a job in a design team, but quickly develop into team leaders and managers. It is also possible to start your own business. Our alumni are employed as software design engineers and system architects, for example, and some are technical advisors at ASML, TASS Software Professionals and Philips. You can also find them working as consultants in companies such as Capgemini, Oracle,?Cordys, Accenture and KPMG, or as researchers in universities both in the Netherlands and in other countries.?