A Master of Science in Data Science is an
interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
degree program designed to provide studies in scientific methods, processes, and systems to extract
knowledge or insights from
data in various forms, either structured or unstructured, similar to
data mining.
Overview
As an area of expertise and field,
data science
Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...
is defined as a "concept to unify statistics, data analysis and their related quantitative and qualitative methods" in order to "understand and analyze actual phenomena" with data. It employs techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the broad areas of
mathematics
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
,
statistics
Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...
,
information science, and
computer science, in particular from the subdomains of
machine learning,
statistical classification,
cluster analysis
Cluster analysis or clustering is the task of grouping a set of objects in such a way that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar (in some sense) to each other than to those in other groups (clusters). It is a main task of ...
,
data mining,
databases, and
visualization.
The degree is relatively new, with graduate schools, business schools, and data science centers often housing the programs. Data science degree programs have emerged to address the growing and unique need for data scientists who can provide insight into multiple organizational issues and interests across several disciplines.
When ''
Harvard Business Review'' called data scientist "The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" the term became a
buzzword
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, and is now often applied to
business analytics, or even arbitrary use of data, or used as a term for statistics. While many university programs now offer a data science degree, there exists no consensus on a definition or curriculum contents.
Master in Data Science programs
Australia
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James Cook University
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Macquarie University
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Monash University
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Queensland University of Technology
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University of Melbourne
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University of New England (Australia)
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University of New South Wales
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University of Newcastle (Australia)
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University of Queensland
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University of Sydney
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University of Technology Sydney
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University of Western Australia
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Western Sydney University
United States
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Boston University
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Brown University
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Cabrini University
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Carnegie Mellon University
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City University of Seattle
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Columbia University
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Cornell University
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Duke University
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Drexel University
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Harvard University
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Illinois Institute of Technology
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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Johns Hopkins University
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Lehigh University
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Lewis University
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Merrimack College
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New Jersey Institute of Technology
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New York University
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North Carolina State University
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Northwestern University
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Rutgers University
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Saint Peter's University
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Southern Methodist University
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Stanford University
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Syracuse University
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Tufts University
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University of California, Berkeley
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University of California, San Diego
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University of Colorado Boulder
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University of Connecticut
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University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
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University of Michigan
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University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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University of St. Thomas
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University of Pennsylvania
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University of Rochester
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University of Southern California
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University of Virginia
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University of Wisconsin
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Utica College
Canada
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McGill University
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Ryerson University
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University of Alberta
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University of British Columbia
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University of Calgary
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University of the Fraser Valley
United Kingdom
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City University London
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Coventry University
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De Montfort University
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Goldsmiths, University of London
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Imperial College London
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Newcastle University
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Robert Gordon University
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Royal Holloway, University of London
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University College London
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University of Bristol
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University of Dundee
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University of Durham
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University of East Anglia
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University of East London
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University of Essex
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University of Greenwich
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University of Liverpool
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University of Manchester
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University of St. Andrews
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University of Warwick
Ireland
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Dublin Institute of Technology
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Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown
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IT Carlow
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University College Cork
India
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IIT
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Indian Institute of Science
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National Institutes of Technology (India)
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Brainware University
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Christ University
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Vellore Institute of Technology
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Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
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BITS Pilani
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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Germany
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FernUniversität in Hagen
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Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
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Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU)
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RWTH Aachen University
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France
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Télécom Paris Tech
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Télécom SudParis
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ESSEC Business School
Finland
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University of Helsinki
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Aalto University
Denmark
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Aalborg University
New Zealand
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University of Auckland
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University of Canterbury
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University of Otago
Hong Kong
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City University of Hong Kong
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Chinese University of Hong Kong
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University of Hong Kong
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