Master of Science Data Analytics

This course emphasises the concepts, techniques, development and application of business intelligence systems through industry-relevant software tools.

Worldwide, there is a shortage of professionals with the skills to apply analytical techniques to interrogate datasets to describe and predict business performance; such as data analysts, data miners and data scientists. Roles in analytics require professionals with an advanced understanding of the business problem, who are adept at navigating the technical landscape, are problem solvers with technical expertise and excellent communicators. Postgraduate students with these skills and abilities are in high demand.

Data Analytics MSc, has been developed and is run with SAS; designed specifically to equip you with the skills and abilities to address the skills shortage. On successful completion of the course you will have developed your analytic and technical knowledge, and enhanced your professional skills within a Business Intelligence context.

Reasons to study Data Analytics at De Montfort University:

• Taught by SAS accredited teaching staff you will be taught by experienced SAS accredited teaching staff providing you with expert knowledge and skills
• Developed to fill skills shortage course content has been developed to enhance your employability and gain substantial knowledge and equipping you with the skills required in for the use of the SAS software as well as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) in industry
• 50 years history of research and teaching in computing technology benefit from our well established academic expertise and advance your skills in, and knowledge of, data analytics to business problems
• Industry placement opportunity you can chose to undertake a year-long work placement gaining valuable experience and skills as well as networking opportunities to build your industry contacts
• Excellent graduate prospects equipped with the relevant skills for business intelligence and data mining roles including SAS Programming, Database Design and Business Intelligence

• Minimum Level of Education Required: 4-Year Bachelor's Degree
• Min GPA: 70.0%
• English Proficiency Requirements:
  For direct admission, applicant must be from an English speaking country or meet either of the following English test scores:
  • Min TOEFL iBT: 60
  • Min IELTS overall: 6
  • Min PTE overall: 50
  Applicants interested in applying for direct admission, but are yet to complete an acceptable language test, can do so, but must provide valid results before receiving a final offer letter.
  For conditional admission, you are required to provide English proficiency scores:
  • Min TOEFL iBT: 32 (Min Listening: 2, Min Reading: 2, Min Speaking: 11, Min Writing: 11)
  • Min IELTS overall: 4.5 (Min Listening: 4, Min Reading: 4, Min Speaking: 4, Min Writing: 4)
  • Min PTE overall: 29

Other fees:

• Reading Materials Fee: £200 per year

* Note: Additional fees may apply
** All fees are subject to change without notice