Kick-start your Data Science journey with the 1st NASSCOM certified PG Diploma in Data Science from IIITB. Start your Diploma today!
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Learner base
12 months
Recommended 12-15 hrs/week
Jan 30, 2021
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About the Program
Choose from 5 specialisations, receive industry mentorship, dedicated career support, learn 14 programming tools & languages & much more
5 Unique Specialisations
Choose from 5 specialisations as per your background & career aspirations. Get a PG Diploma in Data Science from IIIT-B with a specialisation.
Dedicated Career Assistance
Receive 1:1 career counselling sessions, resume building sessions and mock interviews. Utilise the projects in the course to build your profile on platforms like GitHub.
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
Designed for Working Professionals
IIIT Bangalore Alumni Status
14 Programming Tools & Languages
60+ Industry Projects
NASSCOM validated 1st PG Diploma
360 Degree Career Support
One-on-One with Industry Mentors
Dedicated Student Mentor
5 Unique Specialisations to choose from - Natural Language Processing - Deep Learning - Business Analytics - Business Intelligence/ Data Analytics - Data Engineering
Top Skills You Will Learn
Predictive Analytics using Python, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Big Data, Natural Language Processing
Advance your career
Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Product Analyst, Machine Learning Engineer, Decision Scientist
Complete all the courses successfully to obtain this prestigious recognition from IIIT-B with a specialization in any of the following: Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Business Intelligence/ Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Data Engineering
Connect with a global network of accomplished IIIT-B Alumni
Widely recognised and valued Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science
Network with Data Science professionals across all industries
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Instructors
Learn from India’s leading Data Science faculty and industry leaders
Hindol Basu
CEO
An alumnus of IIT and IIM with over 13 years of experience in analytics with industry leaders such as the CitiGroup, Tata Industries, etc.
Chandrashekar Ramanathan
Dean - Academics
Prof. Chandrashekar has a Ph.D. from Mississippi State University and experience of over 10 years in several multinational organizations.
S. Anand
CEO
A gold medallist from IIM Bangalore, an alumnus of IIT Madras and London School of Business, Anand is among top 10 data scientists in India.
Tricha Anjali
Associate Dean
Prof. Anjali has a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech as well as an integrated M.Tech. (EE) from IIT Bombay.
Ankit Jain
Sr. Research Scientist
An alumnus of IIT Bombay, UCB and Harvard Business School with over 9 years of experience
Prof. S. Sadagopan
Director
Prof. Sadagopan is currently the Director (President) of IIIT-B. He has an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Purdue University as well as a B.E. (Hons.) from Madras Uni.
Sameer Dhanrajani
Co-Founder & CEO
An AI and Analytics evangelist for Fortune 500 companies who has won several industry awards in the field of analytics
Ujjyaini Mitra
Head of Analytics
An alumnus of McKinsey and Co., Flipkart, and Bharti Airtel with over 11 years of experience
Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan
Professor
Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and 18 years of experience with Infosys Technologies.
Dinesh Babu Jayagopi
Associate Professor
Prof. Dinesh has a Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnic Federate Switzerland, M.Sc. from IISc Bangalore in System Science and Signal Processing and a B.Tech. from Madras Institute of Technology
Kalpana Subbaramappa
Ex-AVP
Kalpana is the ex-AVP of Decision Sciences at Genpact with over 20 years' experience.
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
Lead Data Scientist (Pricing)
An alumnus of IIT with over 7 years of experience at Watson at IBM Research, startups & Myntra
Syllabus
Best-in-class content by leading faculty and industry leaders in the form of videos, cases and projects, assignments and live sessions
Preparatory Course
4Weeks
Data Toolkit
11Weeks
2Assignments
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Instructors
Machine Learning
9Weeks
3Assignments
Specialization 1: Deep Learning
19Weeks
4Assignments
Specialization 2: Natural Language Processing
19Weeks
4Assignments
Specialization 3: Business Intelligence/ Data Analytics
19Weeks
4Assignment
Specialization 4: Business Analytics
19Weeks
4Assignment
Specialization 5: Data Engineering
19Weeks
4Assignment
Capstone
6Weeks
1Assignment
400+
Content Hours Available
60+
Industry Projects
20+
Live Learning Sessions
25
Expert Coaching Sessions
14
Programming Tools/ Languages
Specialisation
Post Course 2 (Machine Learning), choose any one of the below 5 specialisations as per your background and career aspirations
Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing
Business Intelligence/ Data Analytics
Business Analytics
Data Engineering
Topics Covered
Deep Learning
19Weeks
4Assignments
Tree Models
14hr
Model Selection & General ML Techniques
7hr 30min
Bagging and Boosting
12hr
Advanced Regression
12hr
Advanced Regression Assignment
12hr 30min
Principal Component Analysis
8hr
Time Series Analysis
10hr
Telecom Churn Case Study
14hr
Introduction to Neural Networks
30hr
Neural Networks Assignment
12hr
Convolutional Neural Networks - Introduction and Industry Applications
20hr
Recurrent Neural Networks
15hr
Gesture Recognition
20hr
Tools Covered
Project
Capstone Project
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Topics Covered
Natural Language Processing
19Weeks
4Assignments
Tree Models
14hr
Model Selection & General ML Techniques
7hr 30min
Bagging and Boosting
12hr
Advanced Regression
12hr
Advanced Regression Assignment
12hr 30min
Principal Component Analysis
8hr
Time Series Analysis
10hr
Telecom Churn Case Study
14hr
Lexical Processing
10hr
Syntactic Processing
30hr
Syntactic Processing Assignment
10hr
Semantic Processing
10hr
Chatbot Case Study
20hr
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
19Weeks
4Assignments
Introduction to Databases
8hr
Advanced SQL and Best Practices
9hr
Schema Design and Retrieval Assignment
8hr
NoSQL Databases and Best Practices
20hr
Introduction to Cloud and Hive
12hr
SQL Case Study: Analysing Big Data in Retail
14hr
Advanced Excel
10hr
Visualisation using Tableau
16hr
Interactive Marketing Campaign Analysis
10hr
Visualisation using PowerBI
9hr
Introduction to R and RShiny
14hr
Effective Communication Strategies, Formats, and Templates
8hr
Presentations to Technical and Non-Technical Stakeholders
8hr
Business Case Study
16hr
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
Business Analytics
19Weeks
4Assignments
Tree Models
14hr
Time Series Analysis
20hr
Retail-Giant Sales Forecasting Assignment
9hr
Model Selection & General ML Techniques
7hr 30min
Telecom Churn Case Study
14hr
Advanced SQL and Best Practices
9hr
Advanced Excel
10hr
Structured Problem Solving using Frameworks
9hr
Hypothesis Formulation
9hr
Business Problem Assignment
8hr
Revenue and Operational Cost Modelling
8hr 30min
Introduction to Economics and Financial Concepts
12hr
Effective Communication Strategies, Formats and Templates
8hr
Presentations to Technical and Non-Technical Stakeholders
8hr
Business Case Study
16hr
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
Data Engineering
19Weeks
4Assignments
Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce Programming
12hr
Data Management and Relational Database Modelling
8hr
NoSQL Databases and Apache HBase
12hr
Data Warehousing (Optional)
8hr
Data Ingestion with Apache Sqoop and Apache Flume
12hr
Business Problem Assignment (Optional)
15hr
Building and Querying Data Warehouse with Apache Hive
20hr
Case Study: Ingestion & Warehousing
20hr
Data Processing with PySpark
20hr
Real-Time Data Streaming with Apache Kafka
11hr 59min
Real-Time Data Processing using Spark Streaming
12hr
Business Problem Assignment (Optional)
15hr
Building Automated Data Pipelines with Oozie/Airflow
12hr
Analytics using PySpark
20hr
Case Study: Kafka, Spark Streaming and PySpark
20hr
Tools Covered
Project
Capstone Project
The capstone project will stitch all the components of data engineering toge...
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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
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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Creditworthiness of Customers
Learn how Predictive Analytics can be used to decide the creditworthiness of...
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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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Speech Recognition
Learn how Google speech-to-text works and make your own model using deep lea...
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Image Captioning
Build a model which will caption a given image and describe it in sentences ...
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Gesture Recognition
Learners will build a gesture recognition model for a Smart-TV to recognize ...
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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
Receive unparalleled guidance from industry mentors, teaching assistants and graders
Receive one-on-one feedback on submissions and personalised feedbacks 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 Industry experts and peers
100% Expert-verified responses to ensure quality learning
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
One-on-one discussion and feedback sessions with industry mentors
Our Learners Work At
Top companies from all around the world have recruited upGrad alumni
Career Impact
Career Counselling
Get personalised career paths traced by experts to ascertain the best opportunities
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Resume Feedback
Obtain specific, personalised inputs on your resume structure and content
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Interview Preparation
Get unlimited mock interview sessions with hiring managers and receive detailed feedback
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Admission Process
There are 3 simple steps in the Admission Process which is detailed below:
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
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.
Step 3: Block your Seat & Begin the Prep Course
Block your seat with a payment of USD 200 to enrol into the program. Begin with your Prep course and start your Data Science journey!
Program Fee
USD 4099
Get a chance to avail a fee waiver basis your profile and test scores! Write to us at international.admissions@upgrad.com to know more!
Student Reviews
Vibhor Srivastava
4.5 Years ExperienceDeputy Manager,ICICI Bank
The PGD-DA course from upGrad and IIIT-Bangalore has been a boon for me and it has helped enhance my skills in Excel, SQL, R, etc.
Rutuja Mowade
4 Years ExperienceAnalyst,Nice
It doesn't matter what your previous working background is, as everything is taught from the basics.
Anshu Srivastava
6 Years ExperienceResearch Assistant,Nice
Group case studies really give a sense of teamwork, as it happens in regular classroom studies. It teaches us coordination and right attitude as a team player in meeting all the deadlines.
Gangadhar Mathyam
2 Years ExperienceData Analyst,Tech Mahindra
They will prepare you how to face Data Science job interviews. Along with this, upGrad will also provide mock interviews and mock mcqs tests to check your capability for the interviews.
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