BSc in Data Science
Data Science is the novel area of Science and Technology at the intersection of Mathematics, Statistical Science and Computer Science born out of the desire to take advantage of opportunities and respond to the challenges of the data revolution. Employability prospects are extremely strong, and the transformative capacity of this revolution offers the promise of particularly exciting careers.
A BSc in Data Science with the Institute of Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics at Bristol is a way to start your career, whether in industry, government or research, with a solid mathematical and computational footing. The course includes all of the technical rigour of the regular mathematics programme but emphasises the specific needs of a data scientist to provide statistics and machine learning as core mathematical goals. In particular students on the course receive strong training in computer programming, in collaboration with the Bristol Scientific Computing (BriSC). They further engage in practical data science projects, enabling them to understand and deploy cutting-edge algorithms at scale on real data. A large proportion of the units on this course have been specifically designed to train data scientists and allow the students who opt for the BSc in Data Science with a Year in Industry version of the course to make the most of this opportunity.
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The University of Bristol has a Data Science Society. Visit the DS Society webpage to find out how you could get involved.
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Royal Society’s report Dynamics of data science skills 2019
“Demand for workers with specialist data skills like data scientists and data engineers has more than tripled over five years (+231%)”