Data Science
数据科学与大数据技术
The programme provides essential trainings like quantitative knowledge, statistics, data mining technology and computing tools for emerging real-world applications.
In an inter-professional setting, students are given the tools to build theoretical and methodological knowledge in data science, communication skills and ethic awareness.
Advanced knowledge
The programme provides three flexible areas of advanced knowledge:
Employment prospects
The fast rate of growth of demand in data science has created many new and exciting opportunities for graduates of data science. They can choose to find data science jobs in a private or a public sector, such as data engineers (where software engineering expertise is applied to handle large amounts of data), data analytics (where expertise is applied to study data and provide analysis to explain insights from data), and data scientists (where expertise is applied to fine-tune the mathematical models and statistical learning methods used in data analysis). They may also choose to continue with graduate studies to further their overall data science expertise.
Although data scientists might be wanted everywhere in the society, so far, it is clearly observable and foreseeable that data science graduates will serve in following field
- Finance and Banking
- Innovative Industry
- Information Technology
- Academia
- Smart City and Systems
- Retail and Marketing
- Healthcare and Medical Research
- Government and Public Organizations
Our recent graduates received offers from the leading companies and research universities including Ernst & Young, DBS (HK), JD.com, Baidu, University of Texas, etc
