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Data Science at UEA
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Find out moreMSc Data Science (Part Time 3 Year)
Key details
- Attendance
- Part Time
- Award
- Degree of Master of Science
- Course Length
- 3 years
- Course Start Date
- September 2025
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Research Excellence Framework (REF)Course Overview
Great business decisions are underpinned by high quality data. As a data scientist, you're absolutely integral to the success of an organisation. You’ll source, analyse and utilise vast amounts of data to support strategic decision-making.
As a student, you’ll be part of our vibrant research community and will have very good opportunities to progress to a PhD. You’ll be part of a research group that has made significant contributions in techniques for data mining and KDD – including KDD Methodologies; use of metaheuristics for rule and tree induction; all-rule induction; clustering techniques; feature subset selection; feature construction; time series classification as well as many applications in the financial services industry, medicine, AgriTech, and telecommunications.
If that’s where you aspire to be, then this MSc Data Science course is for you. You'll gain an advanced practical and theoretical grounding in data mining and statistics, with the chance to customise your degree through modules in artificial intelligence, visualisation, programming and database manipulation.
Data Scientists are highly prized for their advanced, practical skill set and their increasing importance to the success of a modern business. Organisations in almost any industry need to source, analyse and utilise vast amounts of data to aid strategic decision-making, so you’ll have great graduate career prospects as well as a wide range of transferrable skills.
We have a large data science and statistics research group, which has made significant contributions to the field in the last 20 years, so you’ll be working directly with pioneering experts. The research group has collaborated in research or consultancy projects with a wide range of organisations, including: the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and The Royal Society, Alston Transport, Derbyshire Police, Aviva, and National Air Traffic Services
You’ll graduate with a wealth of knowledge, prestigious connections and research experience – putting you one step ahead of other graduates in your career or further studies. The course – one of the most established in this area with over 18 years of history – offers an excellent platform to help you forge a successful career in data analysis.
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Careers
Career Pathways
Examples of careers that you could enter include:
- Data scientist
- Data analyst
- Data miner
- Business intelligence analyst
Discover more on our Careers webpages.
After the Course
You’ll graduate ready for a career in data analysis or data science – an area of rapid growth at the moment.
You can expect to earn a high salary – the median annual wage for data science in the UK was 60,000.
Study and Modules
Entry Requirements
- This course is open to
This course is open to UK applicants only. The annual intake for this course is in September each year .
- Typical UK Entry Requirements
Degree classification
Bachelors degree - 2.2.
Degree Subject
Computing, Mathematics or a related subject. You should be able to demonstrate some programming experience either in other qualifications or work experience.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.
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Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2025/26 are:
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UK Students: £11,775
If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for UK students).
Please note that this Part-Time (3 Year) course is not eligible for Student Loan funding.
We estimate living expenses at £1,136 per month.
Further Information on tuition fees can be found here(opens in a new window).
Course Related Costs
Please see Additional Course Fees for details of additional course-related costs.
How to Apply
How to apply
Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.
To apply please use our online application form(opens in a new window).
Further information
If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying, please do contact us:
Postgraduate Admissions Office
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk(opens in a new window)