Although the? programme at is an excellent stepping-stone for students with ambitions in research, most of our graduates work as data consultants and data analysts for commercial companies and governmental organisations.

Why study Data Science at Radboud University?

• This specialisation builds on the strong international reputation of the?Institute for Computing and Information Sciences?(iCIS) in areas such as machine learning, probabilistic modelling, and information retrieval.

• We?re leading in research on legal and privacy aspects of data science and on the impact of data science on society and policy.

• Our approach is pragmatic as well as theoretical. As an academic, we don?t just expect you to understand and make use of the appropriate tools, but also to program and develop your own.

• Because of its relevance to all kinds of different disciplines, we offer our students the chance to take related courses at other departments like at language studies (information retrieval and natural language processing), artificial intelligence (machine learning for cognitive neuroscience), chemistry (pattern recognition and chemometrics) and biophysics (machine learning and optimal control).

• The job opportunities are excellent: some of our students get offered jobs before they?ve even graduated and almost all of our graduates have positions within six months after graduating.

• Exceptional students who choose this specialisation have the opportunity to study for a double degree?in Computing Science together with the specialisation in?Web and Language Interaction?(Artificial Intelligence). This will take three instead of two years.

Career prospects

A professional data scientist has fine problem-solving, analytical, programming, and communication skills. He or she applies those skills to analyse a problem with?real-world data and in the end:

• come up with a creative and useful solution.

• find or program the right tool to turn the data into knowledge.

• communicate the obtained findings to others.

By combining data, computing power and human intellect, data scientists can make a real difference to help and improve our society.

The job perspective for our graduates is excellent. Industry desperately needs data science specialists at an academic level, and thus our graduates have no difficulty in find an interesting and challenging job. A few of our graduates decide to go for a PhD and stay at the university, but most of our students go for a career in industry. They then typically either find a job at a larger company as consultant or data analysis, or start up their own company in data analytics.

Want to know more?

Would you like to learn more about this programme and Radboud University? Join us for our Master?s Open Day on 16 March 2019! To learn more and register for this exciting event, visit www.ru.nl/masters/openday.