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PG Diploma in Data Science
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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- 12 monthsRecommended 12-15 hrs/week
- Feb 27, 2021Start Date
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 IIITB 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
- Complimentary Python Programming Bootcamp
- Career Essential Soft Skills Program
- 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
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 LearnPredictive Analytics using Python, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Big Data, Natural Language Processing
- Advance your careerData Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Product Analyst, Machine Learning Engineer, Decision Scientist
- Who Is This Program For?Engineers, Marketing & Sales Professionals, Freshers, Domain Experts, Software & IT Professionals
- Minimum EligibilityBachelor’s degree, no coding experience required
Syllabus
Best-in-class content by leading faculty and industry leaders in the form of videos, cases and projects
Programming Languages and Tools Covered
Post Graduate Diploma from IIIT Bangalore
Complete all the courses successfully to obtain this prestigious recognition from IIITB 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 IIITB Alumni
- Widely recognised and valued Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science
- Network with Data Science professionals across all industries
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 Business School, Anand is among the 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 Director of IIIT Bangalore. He has an MS and a PhD from Purdue University and a B.E.(Hons.) degree from Madras University.
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
- +1Instructors
- 400+Content Hours Available
- 60+Industry Projects
- 20+Live Learning Sessions
- 25Expert Coaching Sessions
- 14Programming Tools/ Languages
Specialisation
Post Course 2 (Machine Learning), choose any one of the below 6 specialisations as per your background and career aspirations
- Data Science Generalist
- Deep Learning
- Natural Learning Processing
- Business Intelligence/ Data Analytics
- Business Analytics
- Data Engineering
Topics Covered
Tree Models + Boosting (Optional)Model Selection & General ML TechniquesML Lab I: ClassificationPrincipal Component AnalysisAdvanced Regression - IAdvanced Regression - II and ML Lab II: RegressionText Analytics & Processing + Text-Based Predictive ModellingBasic Visualisation using TableauData StorytellingBusiness Case StudyData ModellingSQL Weeklong LabAdvanced SQL - Week IIAlgorithm Analysis + RecursionSearching and Sorting (Divide and Conquer included)Data Structures - Sets, Dictionaries, Stacks, QueuesPython - OOPSPython Weeklong LabCapstone ProjectTools CoveredProject
Capstone ProjectChoose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics...Learn MoreTopics Covered
Tree ModelsModel Selection & General ML TechniquesPrincipal Component AnalysisAdvanced RegressionAdvanced Regression AssignmentBagging and BoostingTime Series AnalysisTelecom Churn Case StudyIntroduction to Neural NetworksNeural Networks AssignmentConvolutional Neural Networks - Introduction and Industry ApplicationsRecurrent Neural NetworksGesture RecognitionDeploymentCapstoneTools CoveredProject
Capstone ProjectChoose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics...Learn MoreTopics Covered
Tree ModelsModel Selection & General ML TechniquesPrincipal Component AnalysisAdvanced RegressionAdvanced Regression AssignmentBagging and BoostingTime Series AnalysisTelecom Churn Case StudyText ProcessingFeature Extraction & modellingAssignment - Natural Language ProcessingIntro to DLNLP Industrial ApplicationsChatbot Case StudyDeploymentCapstoneTools CoveredProject
Capstone ProjectChoose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics...Learn MoreTopics Covered
Data ModellingSQL Best PracticesSQL Assignment: IMDb MoviesAdvanced ExcelNoSQL Databases and Best PracticesIntroduction to Big Data and CloudHive and QueryingHive Case StudyVisualisation using TableauSports Analytics - IPL Visualisation AssignmentVisualisation using PowerBIVisualisation using PlotlyData StorytellingPlotly Case StudyCapstone ProjectTools CoveredProject
Capstone ProjectSolve an end-to-end real-life industry problem from a wide variety of domain...Learn MoreTopics Covered
Tree ModelsTime Series ForecastingRetail-Giant Sales Forecasting AssignmentModel Selection & General ML TechniquesSQL Best PracticesAdvanced ExcelTelecom Churn Case StudyStructured Problem Solving using FrameworksStructured Problem Solving AssignmentOperations ResearchData StorytellingOperations Research Case StudyCapstone ProjectTools CoveredProject
Capstone ProjectSolve an end-to-end real-life industry problem from a wide variety of domain...Learn MoreTopics Covered
Introduction to Big Data(Optional)Introduction to Cloud and AWS SetupIntroduction to Hadoop and MapReduce ProgrammingMapReduce Programming Assignment (optional)Data Management and Relational Database ModellingNoSQL Databases and Apache HBase and NoSQL Databases and MongoDB(Optional)Data Warehousing (Optional)Data Ingestion with Apache Sqoop and Apache FlumeHive & QueryingHive Assignment (optional)Amazon RedshiftIntroduction to Apache SparkNYC Parking Assignment (Optional)Project: ETL Data PiplineOptimising Spark for Large Scale Data ProcessingApache Flink(Optional)Real-Time Data Streaming with Apache KafkaReal-Time Data Processing using Spark StreamingStock data Analysis Assignment (Optional)Building Automated Data Pipelines with AirflowAnalytics using PySparkClassification Assignment (Optional)Project: Real Time data processingCapstone ProjectTools CoveredProject
Capstone ProjectThe capstone project will stitch all the components of data engineering toge...Learn More
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 AnalysisAnalyze movie data from the past hundred years and find out various insights...Learn More
- Uber Supply-Demand GapUse analytics to identify why Uber sometimes faces a supply-demand challenge...Learn More
- Creditworthiness of CustomersLearn how Predictive Analytics can be used to decide the creditworthiness of...Learn More
- Lead ScoringLearn how the knowledge of basic machine learning algorithms can be used to ...Learn More
- Fraud DetectionDecline fraud transactions on a credit card in real-time to minimize the los...Learn More
- Speech RecognitionLearn how Google speech-to-text works and make your own model using deep lea...Learn More
- Image CaptioningBuild a model which will caption a given image and describe it in sentences ...Learn More
- Gesture RecognitionLearners will build a gesture recognition model for a Smart-TV to recognize ...Learn More
- Social Media ListeningWhat if you could predict the popularity of a brand like upGrad in India?Learn More
- Telecom ChurnTelecom companies often face the problem of churning customers due to the co...Learn More
- Retail-Giant Sales ForecastingHelp a retail-giant to have a clear idea of how their sales will look like i...Learn More
- Interactive Marketing Campaign AnalysisResearch and analyse data from a marketing campaign to gain valuable insight...Learn More
The upGrad Advantage
Strong hand-holding with dedicated support to help you master Data Science
- Industry Mentors
- 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
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
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.
It doesn't matter what your previous working background is, as everything is taught from the basics.
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.
Empowering learners of tomorrow
Over 2,300 students have completed this course and started working at their dream job, whats stopping you?
How You Benefit From This Program
- Post Graduate Diploma without quitting your job
- Cutting-edge curiculum designed by industry experts
- Alumni status from IIIT Bangalore
- Career transition with 58% average salary hike
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