BScData Science and Analytics

Study location	United Kingdom, Colchester Campus
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years
Study language	English
Awards	BSc
Course code	I1G3

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher)

Language requirements	English Accepted proof of proficiency: Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL or other equivalent IELTS: 6.0 TOEFL (IBT): 76 CAE: B2 with 52+ CAE (from Jan 15): 169+

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided.

More information	essex.ac.uk/..tercourse=UG01034&subgroup=1

Overview

Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.

Programme structure

Year 1

Professional Development
Discrete Mathematics
Statistics I
Introduction to Programming
Object-Oriented Programming
Introduction to Databases
Web Development
Mathematics for Data Science (optional)
Linear Mathematics (optional)

Year 2

Group Project & Industrial Practice
Databases and Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Statistics II
Introduction to Quantitative Management
Software Engineering (optional)
Application Programming (optional)
Data Structures and Algorithms (optional)

Final year

Modelling Experimental Data (optional)
Statistical Methods (optional)
Stochastic Processes (optional)
Applied Statistics (optional)
Bayesian Computational Statistics (optional)
Combinatorial Optimisation (optional)
Distributed Computing Systems (optional)
Large Scale Software Systems and Extreme Programming (optional)
Natural Language Engineering (optional)
Advanced Programming (optional)
Individual Project (optional)

Career opportunities

Our graduates in data science have been very successful in finding employment in the public sector, consulting, technology, retail, and utilities, while a number have gone on to postgraduate study or research.

Our recent graduates have gone on to work for a wide range of high-profile companies including:

BT
EDS
IBM
Royal Bank of Scotland
Accenture
Google
Force India F1

Our School has a large pool of external contacts, ranging from companies providing robots for the media industry, through vehicle diagnostics, to the transforming of unstructured data to cloud-based multidimensional data cubes, who work with us and our students to provide advice, placements and eventually graduate opportunities.