BSc in Data Science University of Nicosia

Program Description

The aim of the program is to equip students with foundational knowledge, technical skills and practical insight to the inter-disciplinary field of Data Science. The DS program combines theory and practice, based on three main disciplines, Computer Science, Statistics and Mathematics, and real-world application domains. It has been designed to enable graduates of the program to meet the demands of the data-driven economy of the future. More specifically, the program aims at: Providing students with the technical and analytical skills required for acquiring, managing, analyzing, and extracting insight from data. Providing students with a strong mathematical and statistics foundation that will enable them to appropriately formulate models and apply optimization techniques for data analyses challenges. Providing students with software engineering and machine learning skills to design and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions for data-oriented problems. Enable students to assess the level of privacy and security of a technical solution to a data science problem. Preparing students to pursue further postgraduate education and research that require expertise in data science and analytical reasoning (such as business analytics, finance, health, bioinformatics). Providing students with a strong sense of social commitment, global vision and independent self-learning ability

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