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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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  • 20 Months
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  • May 31, 2022
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    Starts at $208.31/month
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About the Program

Choose from 3 specializations, receive industry mentorship, dedicated career support, learn 14 programming tools & languages & much more

3 Unique Specializations

Choose from 3 specializations as per your background & career aspirations. Get a Executive PG Program in Data Science from IIITB with a specialization.

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Program Overview

Key Highlights

  • Complimentary Python Programming Bootcamp
  • Career Essential Soft Skills Program
  • WES Recognised
  • 500+ Hours of Learning
  • 25+ Case Studies and Projects
  • Fortnightly Group Mentorship with Industry Mentors
  • One-on-One with Industry Mentors
  • Timely Doubt Resolution
  • Support Available all days 24 hours.
  • IIIT Bangalore & LJMU Alumni Status
  • Build your GitHub profile

3 Unique Specializations to choose from
- Deep Learning
- Business Intelligence/ Data 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 with minimum 50% or equivalent passing marks. 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 recognized 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
Ex- 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
Debabrata Das
Debabrata Das
Director, IIITB
He is PI and nodal officer of the project under the National Mission for Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems.
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.
Prof. Dr. V. Sridhar
Prof. Dr. V. Sridhar
Faculty in Charge, CPE, IIITB
Dr. Sridhar has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, U.S.A. He has been a member of Government of India committees on Telecom & IT and has published many peer reviewed articles in telecom and information systems journal.

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
    • Data Toolkit
      • 12 Weeks
    • Machine Learning
      • 10 Weeks
    • Specialization- Deep Learning
      • 22 Weeks
    • Specialisation - Business Intelligence/Data Analytics
      • 22 Weeks
    • Specialisation - Data Engineering
      • 22 Weeks
    • Research Methodologies
      • 8 Weeks
    • Master's Dissertation
      • 16 Weeks
    • 500+
      Hours of Learning Content.
    • 25+
      Case Studies and Projects
    • 20+
      Live Sessions
    • 25
      1:8 Coaching Sessions with Industry Experts
    • 14+
      Tools and Software

    Specializations

    You can choose one of the 3 specialization, based on your interest.

    • Deep Learning
    • Business Intelligence/ Data Analytics
    • Data Engineering

    • Topics Covered

      Deep Learning
      • 22 Weeks
      • 4 Assignments
      Bagging & Random Forest
      Boosting
      Model Selection & General ML Techniques
      Principal Component Analysis
      Advanced Regression
      Advanced ML case Stuy
      Time Series Analysis
      Introduction to Neural Networks and ANN
      Neural Network Assignment
      Convolutional Neural Networks
      Convolutional Neural Networks -Industry Applications
      Object Detection & Image Segmentation (Optional)
      Recurrent Neural Networks
      Gesture Recognition
      Capstone Project

    • Topics Covered

      Business Intelligence/ Data Analytics
      • 22 Weeks
      • 9 Assignments
      Visualisation using Tableau
      Advanced Excel
      Visualisation using PowerBI
      Structured Problem Solving using Frameworks
      Data Storytelling
      AirBnB Case Study
      Data Modelling
      Advanced SQL and Best Practices
      Introduction to Big Data and Cloud
      Analytics using Spark
      Big Data Case Study
      Data Structures - Sets, Dictionaries, Stacks, Queues
      Searching and Sorting
      Algorithm Analysis + Recursion
      Advanced Database Programming using Pandas
      Python & SQL Lab
      Capstone Project

    • Topics Covered

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

    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
    • Personalized subjective feedback on your submissions to facilitate improvement
    • IMDb Movie Analysis
      Analyze movie data from the past hundred years and find out various insights...
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    • Uber Supply-Demand Gap
      Use analytics to identify why Uber sometimes faces a supply-demand challenge...
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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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    • 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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    • 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 Support
      • Support is available all days for 24 hours.
      • For urgent queries, use the Call Back option on the platform.
    • 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 with few questions 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 Executive PGP 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 $200 to enroll into the program. Begin with your Prep course and start your Data Science journey!

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    Over 2,300 students have completed this course and started working at their dream job, whats stopping you?

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    How You Benefit From This Program
    • M.Sc & Executive PGP without quitting your job
    • Cutting-edge curriculum designed by industry experts
    • Alumni status from IIIT Bangalore & LJMU
    • Upskill yourself with 500+ learning hours
    Program Fee
    USD 8,249
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      Student Reviews

      Kunwar Alok
      Kunwar Alok
      15 Years Experience
      You may not believe it but I had never done coding in my life. I did it during this course and was thrilled to see the outcomes coming out of those codes. Just the way I used to get happy after solving a good (tough) math problem during my school age. Thanks to upGrad for providing a great service to people like us who at the age of 43 can dream to study with budding talents around.
      Sundara Rajan Jeyaraj
      Sundara Rajan Jeyaraj
      As a working professional, upGrad felt like a convenient option. I like that it's full-time and rigorous even though it’s online (don’t let that fool you!). The beginning of my course was super fun, exciting and challenging. It felt like taking a walk back to my school days. The program also offers a lot of hands-on experience.
      Shravani Shahapure
      Shravani Shahapure
      16 Years Experience
      For someone who really wants to pursue a career in the field of Data Science, it is worth to opt for the complete course by IIITB and upGrad. IIITB and upGrad’s online course on Data Science gives many opportunities and develops students for their future as they provide the best professors, thought-provoking assignments and case studies.
      Harkirat Dhillon
      Harkirat Dhillon
      A dedicated studying regime is the key to be successful and pass the programme. This programme will help build a strong foundation for a successful transition into Data Science. Additionally, participating in Hackathons and Kaggle competitions to solve real world problems will definitely give you an edge and land a job if one is willing to work hard.
      Sidharth Mahapatra
      Sidharth Mahapatra
      The concepts of R programming and Machine Learning will be taught by Prof. Chandrasekhar Ramanathan and Prof. G Srinivasaraghavan respectively. Both of them have been listed in the list of the top twenty most prominent Data Science academics published by Analytics India Magazine. So you need not worry about quality of teaching in this program.

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