P.G.DIP DATA SCIENCE

Make discoveries in data and bring value to businesses and organisations. With a postgraduate degree in Data Science, you can enhance your exisiting computing knowledge, or gain new skills that can help you secure a role in one of the fastest-growing employment fields in the digital economy.

Developed as one of the UK's first postgraduate conversion courses in this field, our BCS-accredited degree is designed to equip graduates and professionals from a wide range of disciplines and with a demonstrable mathematical aptitude, with anaytical knowlegde and applied programming skills.

Available with full and part-time study routes, the course provide learners with specialist data science knowledge to apply in a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, commerce, professional services and the built enviornment. Start dates are available each January and September.

The University of Salford is a leading regional study centre for computer science - and a great place for you to further your data science journey. We are excited to be part of the GM Cyber Foundry, the Greater Manchester city region's blueprint to be a global leader in cyber and digital research and intelligence.

You will:

• Develop an awareness of the latest developments in advanced databases, data mining and big data tools such as Hadoop
• Gain SAS certification while you study through our partnership with the SAS Student Academy
• Work with real-world messy data and gain experience across the data science stack
• Explore 'Big Data', machine learning and data visualisation