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Master of Science in Data Science

Kick-start your Data Science journey with Globally Recognised Master's from Liverpool John Moores University .

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  • Feb 27, 2021
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About the Program

Choose from 6 specialisations, receive industry mentorship, dedicated career support, learn 14 programming tools & languages & much more

6 Unique Specialisations

Choose from 6 specialisations as per your background & career aspirations. Get a PG Diploma in Data Science from IIIT-B with a specialisation.

Dedicated Career Assistance

Receive unlimited 1:1 career counselling sessions & mock interviews with hiring managers.

Personalised Mentorship

Get a dedicated student mentor with proactive support every step of the way & personalised fortnightly group (1:8) mentorship sessions with industry experts.

Program Overview

Key Highlights

  • Complimentary Python Programming Bootcamp
  • Career Essential Soft Skills Program
  • Only online M.Sc in DS for working professionals
  • 500+ Hours of Learning
  • 60+ Case Studies and Projects
  • Fortnightly Group Mentorship with Industry Mentors
  • One-on-One with Industry Mentors
  • Timely Doubt Resolution
  • Dedicated Student Success Mentor
  • IIIT Bangalore & LJMU Alumni Status
  • Build your GitHub profile
  • NASSCOM certified

6 Unique Specialisations to choose from
- Data Science Generalist
- Deep Learning
- Natural Learning Processing
- Business Intelligence/ Data Analytics
- Business Analytics
- Data Engineering

  • Top Skills You Will Learn
    Statistics, Predictive Analytics using Python, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, etc.
  • Advance Your Career In
    Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Product Analyst, Machine Learning Engineer, Business Analyst
  • Who Is This Program For?
    Any specialization can be chosen regardless of background. The program caters to: Engineers, Marketing & Sales Professionals, Freshers, Data Professionals, Domain Experts, Software & IT Professionals
  • Minimum Eligibility
    Bachelor’s degree, no coding experience required
Syllabus

Experience 500+ hours of best-in-class content by leading faculty and industry leaders in the form of videos, cases and projects

Programming Languages and Tools Covered

Master's Degree from LJMU

With a heritage that stretches back to 1823, Liverpool John Moores University, UK is now one of the largest and most well-established universities in the UK. It has been ranked in the Top 100 World Young Universities & Top 50 in the UK by Student Satisfaction.

  • Complete all courses to achieve this prestigious M.Sc. Degree from LJMU, UK to jump-start your career in Data Science
  • Get access to the complete digital library of LJMU to research & write your dissertation
  • Earn a Master's degree which is recognised by WES, at 1/10th the cost of an offline program
Master's Degree from LJMU
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Instructors

Learn from leading Data Science faculty and industry leaders

Dr. Gabriela Czanner
Dr. Gabriela Czanner
Faculty - Engineering and Technology
A Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Data Science at Department of Applied Mathematics at LJMU. Her research focus is advanced statistics for decision support
Prof. Paulo Lisboa
Prof. Paulo Lisboa
Head of Dept - Applied Mathematics
Studied mathematical physics at LU and was the chairman of Industrial Mathematics at LJMU in 1996 and Head of Graduate School in 2002
Dr. Atif Waraich
Dr. Atif Waraich
Faculty - Computer Science
A Senior faculty of Engineering and Technology at LJMU who has multiple publications in the healthcare domain
Prof. Dhiya Al-Jumeily
Prof. Dhiya Al-Jumeily
Professor - Artificial Intelligence
A Senior Member of the IEEE and a Chartered IT Professional. He is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
Chandrashekar Ramanathan
Chandrashekar Ramanathan
Dean - Academics
Prof. Chandrashekar has a Ph.D. from Mississippi State University and over 10 years of experience in several multinational organisations
Tricha Anjali
Tricha Anjali
Associate Dean
Prof. Anjali has a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech as well as an integrated M.Tech. (EE) from IIT Bombay. She is currently the dean of IIIT-B
Prof. S. Sadagopan
Prof. S. Sadagopan
Director
Prof. Sadagopan is currently Director of IIIT Bangalore. He has an MS and a PhD from Purdue University and a B.E.(Hons.) degree from Madras University.
Anshuman Gupta
Anshuman Gupta
Director, Data Science
He has a Ph.D. (Dual) from Penn State University as well as a B.Tech. Degree from IIT Bombay.
Ujjyaini Mitra
Ujjyaini Mitra
Head of Data Science
An alumnus of McKinsey and Co., Flipkart, and Bharti Airtel with over 11 years of experience
Ankit Jain
Ankit Jain
Sr. Research Scientist
An alumnus of IIT Bombay, UCB, and Harvard Business School with over 9 years of experience.
Mirza Rahim Baig
Mirza Rahim Baig
Lead Business Analytics
Advanced analytics professional with 8+ years of experience as a consultant in the e-commerce and healthcare domains
Sajan Kedia
Sajan Kedia
Lead Data Scientist (Pricing)
An alumnus of IIT with over 7 years of experience working on Watson at IBM Research, Startups & Myntra
Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan
Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan
Professor
Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a PhD in Computer Science from IIT-K and 18 years of experience with Infosys Technologies and several other companies.
Colin Hagemeyer
Colin Hagemeyer
Data Scientist
He is instrumental in helping companies use data to aid in decision making. His interests include applying machine learning to computer vision.
Behzad Almadi
Behzad Almadi
Data Scientist
Along with extensive experience in Machine Learning and Neural Networks, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University and New Jersey Institute of Technology.
S. Anand
S. Anand
CEO
A gold medallist from IIM Bangalore, an alumnus of IIT Madras and London Business School, Anand is among the top 10 data scientists in India.
Bijoy Kumar Khandelwal
Bijoy Kumar Khandelwal
Chief Operating Officer
Bijoy comes with a deep understanding of the private and cloud architectures and has helped numerous companies make the transition.

Syllabus

Best-in-class content by leading faculty and industry leaders in the form of videos, cases and projects, assignments and live sessions
  • Pre-Program Preparatory Content
    • 4 Weeks
    Chandrashekar Ramanathan
    S Anand
  • Data Toolkit
    • 14 Weeks
    • 2 Assignments
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    Tricha Anjali
    Chandrashekar Ramanathan
    S Anand
    Srinivas Raghavan
  • Machine Learning
    • 9 Weeks
    • 3 Assignments
    Dinesh Babu Jayagopi
    Ujjyaini Mitra
    Hindol Basu
    Mirza Rahim Baig
  • Specialisation- Data Science Generalist
    • 22 Weeks
    • 5 Assignments
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    G. Srinivasaraghavan
    Deepak Kumar
  • Specialisation- Deep Learning
    • 25 Weeks
    • 4 Assignments
    Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan
    Ujjyaini Mitra
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    Ankit Jain
    S Anand
  • Specialisation- Natural Language Processing
    • 25 Weeks
    • 4 Assignments
    Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan
    Ujjyaini Mitra
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    Srinath Srinivasa
  • Specialisation- Business Intelligence/Data Analytics
    • 25 Weeks
    • 9 Assignments
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    Srinivas Raghavan
    S Anand
    Ujjyaini Mitra
  • Specialisation- Business Analytics
    • 25 Weeks
    • 9 Assignments
    Chandrashekar Ramanathan
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    S Anand
  • Specialisation- Data Engineering
    • 27 Weeks
    • 11 Assignments
    Chandrashekar Ramanathan
    Vishwa Mohan
    Karthikeyan Sankaran
  • Research Methodologies
    • 8 Weeks
    Prof. Paulo Lisboa
    Dr. Atif Waraich
    Prof. Dhiya Al-Jumeily
    Dr. Gabriela Czanner
  • Master's Dissertation
    • 16 Weeks
    Dr. Gabriela Czanner
  • 500+
    Hours of Content
  • 60+
    Case Studies and Projects
  • 20+
    Live Sessions
  • 25
    1:8 Coaching Sessions with Industry Experts
  • 14+
    Tools and Software

Specialisations

You can choose one of the 6 specialisation, based on your interest.

  • Data Science Generalist
  • Deep Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Business Intelligence/Data Analytics
  • Business Analytics
  • Data Engineering

  • Topics Covered

    Data Science Generalist
    • 22 Weeks
    • 5 Assignments
    Tree Models + Boosting (Optional)
    Model Selection & General ML Techniques
    ML Lab I: Classification
    Principal Component Analysis
    Advanced Regression - I
    Advanced Regression - II & ML Lab II: Regression
    Text Analytics & Processing + Text-Based Predictive Modelling
    Basic Visualisation using Tableau
    Data Storytelling
    Business Case Study
    Data Modelling
    SQL Weeklong Lab
    Advanced SQL - Week II
    Algorithm Analysis + Recursion
    Searching and Sorting (Divide and Conquer included)
    Data Structures - Sets, Dictionaries, Stacks, Queues
    Python - OOPS
    Python Weeklong Lab
    Capstone Project
    Tools Covered

    Project

    Capstone Project
    Solve an end-to-end real-life industry problem from a wide variety of domain...
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  • Topics Covered

    Deep Learning
    • 25 Weeks
    • 4 Assignment
    Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan
    Ujjyaini Mitra
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    Ankit Jain
    S Anand
    Tree Models
    Model Selection & General ML Techniques
    Principal Component Analysis
    Advanced Regression
    Advanced Regression Assignment
    Bagging and Boosting
    Time Series Analysis
    Telecom Churn Case Study
    Introduction to Neural Networks
    Neural Networks Assignment
    Convolutional Neural Networks - Introduction and Industry Applications
    Recurrent Neural Networks
    Gesture Recognition
    Capstone project
    Tools Covered

    Project

    Capstone Project
    Choose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics...
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  • Topics Covered

    Natural Language Processing
    • 25 Weeks
    • 4 Assignment
    Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan
    Ujjyaini Mitra
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    Srinath Srinivasa
    Tree Models
    Model Selection & General ML Techniques
    Principal Component Analysis
    Advanced Regression
    Advanced Regression Assignment
    Bagging and Boosting
    Time Series Analysis
    Telecom Churn Case Study
    Text Processing
    Feature Extraction & modelling
    Assignment - Natural Language Processing
    Intro to DL
    NLP Industrial Applications
    Chatbot Case Study
    Capstone Project
    Tools Covered

    Project

    Capstone Project
    Choose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics...
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  • Topics Covered

    Business Intelligence/Data Analytics
    • 25 Weeks
    • 9 Assignment
    Chandrashekar Ramanathan
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    S Anand
    Data Modelling
    SQL Best Practices
    SQL Assignment: IMDb Movies
    Advanced Excel
    NoSQL Databases and Best Practices
    Introduction to Big Data and Cloud
    Hive and Querying
    Hive Case Study
    Visualisation using Tableau
    Sports Analytics - IPL Visualisation Assignment
    Visualisation using PowerBI
    Visualisation using Plotly
    Data Storytelling
    Plotly Case Study
    Capstone Project
    Tools Covered

    Project

    Capstone Project
    Choose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics...
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  • Topics Covered

    Business Analytics
    • 25 Weeks
    • 9 Assignment
    Mirza Rahim Baig
    Srinivas Raghavan
    S Anand
    Ujjyaini Mitra
    Tree Models
    Time Series Analysis
    Retail-Giant Sales Forecasting Assignment
    SQL Best Practices
    Advanced Excel
    Telecom Churn Case Study
    Structured Problem Solving using Frameworks
    Structured Problem Solving Assignment
    Operations Research
    Data Storytelling
    Operations Research Case Study
    Capstone Project
    Tools Covered

    Project

    Capstone Project
    Choose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics...
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  • Topics Covered

    Data Engineering
    • 27 Weeks
    • 11 Assignment
    Chandrashekar Ramanathan
    Introduction to Big Data(Optional)
    Introduction to Cloud and AWS Setup
    Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce Programming
    MapReduce Programming Assignment (optional)
    Data Management and Relational Database Modelling
    NoSQL Databases and Apache HBase NoSQL Databases and MongoDB(Optional)
    Data Warehousing (Optional)
    Data Ingestion with Apache Sqoop and Apache Flume
    Hive & Querying
    Hive Assignment (optional)
    Amazon Redshift
    Introduction to Apache Spark
    NYC Parking Assignment (Optional)
    Project: ETL Data Pipline
    Optimising Spark for Large Scale Data Processing
    Apache Flink(Optional)
    Real-Time Data Streaming with Apache Kafka
    Real-Time Data Processing using Spark Streaming
    Stock data Analysis Assignment (Optional)
    Building Automated Data Pipelines with Airflow
    Analytics using PySpark
    Classification Assignment (Optional)
    Project: Real Time data processing
    Capstone Project
    Tools Covered

    Project

    Capstone Project
    Choose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics...
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Industry Projects

Learn through real-life industry projects sponsored by top companies across industries

  • Engage in collaborative projects with student-mentor interaction
  • Benefit by learning in-person with expert mentors
  • Personalised subjective feedback on your submissions to facilitate improvement
  • Uber Supply-Demand Gap
    Use analytics to identify why Uber sometimes faces a supply-demand challenge...
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  • Creditworthiness of Customers
    Learn how Predictive Analytics can be used to decide the creditworthiness of...
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  • Speech Recognition
    Learn how Google speech-to-text works and make your own model.
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  • Image Captioning
    Build a model which will caption a given image and describe it in sentences ...
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  • Social Media Listening
    What if you could predict the popularity of a brand like upGrad in India?
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  • Telecom Churn
    Telecom companies often face the problem of churning customers due to the co...
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  • IMDb Movie Analysis
    Analyze movie data from the past hundred years and find out various insights...
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  • Lead Scoring
    Learn how the knowledge of basic machine learning algorithms can be used to ...
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  • Fraud Detection
    Decline fraud transactions on a credit card in real-time to minimize the los...
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  • Retail-Giant Sales Forecasting
    Help a retail-giant to have a clear idea of how their sales will look like i...
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  • Interactive Marketing Campaign Analysis
    Research and analyse data from a marketing campaign to gain valuable insight...
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The upGrad Advantage
Strong hand-holding with dedicated support to help you master Data Science
  • Learning Support
    Industry Mentors
    • Receive unparalleled guidance from industry mentors, teaching assistants and graders
    • Receive one-on-one feedback on submissions and personalised feedback on improvement
    Student Success Mentors
    • A dedicated Success Mentors is allocated to each student so as to ensure consistent progress
    • Success Mentors are your single points of contact for all your non-academic queries
  • Q&A Forum
    • Timely doubt resolution by peers and Teaching Assistants on the Q&A forum
    • Personalised feedback on assignments and case studies
    Expert Feedback
    • Personalised expert feedback on assignments and projects
    • Regular live sessions by experts to clarify concept-related doubts
  • Industry Networking
    • Live sessions by experts on various industry topics
    • Group discussions
    • One-on-one discussions and feedback sessions with industry mentors

Admission Process

There are 3 simple steps in the Admission Process which is detailed below:

Step 1: Take the Online Eligibility Test

Step 1: Take the Online Eligibility Test

Complete your application to take the 17 minute online eligibility test to kick-start the admission process. The test is designed to assess your quantitative & logical aptitude ensuring you're ready for the program.

Step 2: Get Shortlisted & Receive your Offer Letter

Step 2: Get Shortlisted & Receive your Offer Letter

Our Admissions Committee will review your test score & profile. Upon qualifying, an Offer Letter will be sent to you confirming your admission to the PG Diploma in Data Science and Master in Data Science from L.J.M.U

Step 3: Block your Seat & Begin the Prep Course

Step 3: Block your Seat & Begin the Prep Course

Block your seat with a block payment of USD 200 to enrol into the program. Begin with your Prep course and start your Data Science journey!

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