• MSc Data Science at the University of Edinburgh is offered a program for a duration of 1 year.
  • It is an on-campus program, offered on both a full-time and a part-time basis.
  • Data science is the study of the computational principles, methods, and systems for extracting and structuring knowledge from data and the application and use of those principles.
  • The courses of the program are:
    • Informatics Research Review
    • Informatics Project Proposal
    • Dissertation
  • Students are also required to take a breadth of courses in data science, with at least one in each of the following areas:
    • Machine Learning, Statistics, and Optimization
    • Databases and Data Management
    • Applications
  • Students are taught two semesters of lectures, tutorials, project work, and written assignments, after which they will learn research methods before individual supervision for their project and dissertation.