Data Science (with Foundation Year) (Hons) Nottingham Trent University

Overview

Mathematics, science and engineering – they’re the building blocks you’ll focus during your foundation year, preparing you to move onto BSc (Hons) Data Science in your second year.

You’ll take part in a series of individual and group projects alongside your modules. It’s a hands-on way of learning that will develop your problem solving and creative thinking skills and helps to build other transferable skills such as team-working.

If you find data science isn’t for you, we can support you to move into one of our other mathematics or engineering courses at the end of your foundation year.

Careers and employability

This Data Science (with Foundation Year) (Hons) course from Nottingham Trent University prepares you for a wide range of career opportunities both inside and outside mathematics. It’ll help you to develop numerical, analytical and computational skills which are greatly respected by employers. 

You’ll also gain essential, transferable skills including report communication, team working and problem solving. Our graduates have gone on to work for companies and in roles such as:

• Nomura – international technology analyst

• Bradford and Bingley – portfolio officer

• Shell International Trading and Shipping – finance administrator

• Brackman Chopra LLP – trainee accountant

• Caisson Investment Management – investment analyst

• Chase Evans – accounts payable officer

• Drop Test Kits – product technician

• FDM – trainee software test analyst

• Interoute – graduate accounts assistant (Commissions)

• Oegen – junior programmer / project manager.