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Start date:
January 2025
September 2025
Duration:
1 year (full-time)
2 years (part-time)
Please add an additional year if undertaking the Professional Experience Year: integrated 2-year masters
Number of credits:
MSc: 180 credits
PGDip: 120 credits
PGCert: 60 credits
Get future ready with a programme shaped for the future. Our MSc Data Science will prepare you with the skills you need to work in the rapidly growing data science sector.
Did you know?
You will study in labs in the brand new state-of-the-art media centre on campus.
This course is available as an extended masters for international students
Modules
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Professional Experience Year
This course also offers the option of a Professional Experience Year. This programme combines dynamic career modules with flexible placement opportunities. After completing your first year of study, you'll then complete a full year of Professional Experience training as part of your degree. This will give you real career experience. This unique opportunity offers you distinct paths to build your expertise.
Skills
Get the skills for an exciting and fulfilling career.
You will gain skills in:
- data analysis
- machine learning
- visualisation
- programming
- mathematics for data science
You will graduate with skills valuable to financial, social, policy and commercial settings.
Learning
Learning shaped around you.
We deliver all computing programmes in an active blended learning style, with most lectures replaced by workshops and seminars. Our approach provides a learning environment focused on collaborative working in practical lab spaces, immersed in an environment based on working in the IT industry.
You will:
- benefit from emphasising real-world workflows
- applying techniques
- using case studies
- working with real data sets
- demonstrate the skills you have acquired throughout the year in your final project.
Assessment
Put your knowledge into practice.
You’ll be set authentic assessments, meaning that your projects, tasks and exercises will replicate the working world of data science, ensuring that you are fully prepared for life after graduation.
Career
Look forward to a career that works for you.
Data Science is a growing field with graduates in great demand and excellent prospects in FinTech, banking, management consultancies, travel and transport, utilities, and healthcare.
You could work as a:
- Data Scientist
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Data Analyst
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Data Engineer
- Statistician
- Quantitative Analyst
How our careers service supports you
Our careers team is available to support you from the start of your studies until after you graduate. We will help you build your CV, prepare for interviews, and meet and learn from successful graduates working at the top of their careers. You’ll also have opportunities to work with our partners across London and beyond, and to attend a Roehampton jobs fair where you can find out about graduate opportunities and meet employers.
Open days
Get a real taste of our campus, community and what it’s like to study at Roehampton
Applying
UK postgraduate students apply through our direct application system.
Course subject to curriculum review and validation.
Specific entry requirements
UK degrees: 2:2 STEM, preferably computer science, maths or statistics.
General entry requirements
September 2024 entry tuition fees (UK)
| Level of study | Full-time | Part-time* |
| MSc | £10,500 | £5,513 |
| PGDip | £7,000 | £3,675 |
| PGCert | £3,500 | £1,838 |
*average fee per year
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for UK students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
International postgraduate students apply through our direct application system.
Course subject to curriculum review and validation.
Specific entry requirements
UK degrees: 2:2 STEM, preferably computer science, maths or statistics.
General entry requirements
September 2024 entry tuition fees (international)
| Level of study | Full-time | Part-time* |
| MSc | £17,325 | £9,096 |
| PGDip | £11,550 | £6,064 |
| PGCert | £5,775 | £3,032 |
*average fee per year
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for international students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
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