Overview

This 4-year full-time Scheme is designed to provide students with solid training in mathematical, statistical and computer programming skills, with special emphasis on applications in investment and finance analytics or data science and analytics. The Data Science and Analytics programme is offered by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Career Outcomes

The Scheme is designed to develop students’ analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills, nurturing an outlook and methodology that equip graduates to pursue a variety of careers in fields such as telecoms, information technology, market research, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, investment banking, fund management, risk management, and financial product development and pricing.

Programme Structure

Year One: Students study the general university requirement (GUR) subjects and subjects common to the Scheme, such as calculus, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, probability and distributions, and programming fundamentals.
Year Two: Students are streamed into one of the two Majors under the Scheme based on their individual preferences.
Year Three: Students are expected to complete most of the major discipline-specific compulsory subjects, including statistical machine learning, big data analytics, decision analysis and optimisation methods for the Data Science and Analytics programme.
Year Four: Students have the flexibility to choose their major discipline-specific elective subjects from a large pool in the fields of statistics, data science, computing science, finance and investment, health and medical informatics and urban informatics.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-06 00:00:00

More details

Local Jupas: 4 December: Deadline for submission of Jupas applications.

Language

English

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80

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IELTS

6

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Credits

124 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR)

Disciplines

Data Science & Big Data Data Analytics View 8 other Bachelors in Data Analytics in Hong Kong (SAR)

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants with good results in public examinations/post-secondary qualifications in English Language and Mathematics are preferred.

GCE Advanced Level or International Advanced Level with passes in 3 AL, OR 2 AL and 2 AS subjects

A minimum score of 24 with at least grade 4 in 2 Higher Level subjects

Individual interview/Zoom interview

Only selected applicants will be invited to interviews.

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

175000 HKD / year

≈ 175000 HKD / year
Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

44500 HKD / year

≈ 44500 HKD / year

Living costs

Hong Kong

Hong Kong (SAR)

13720 - 23419 HKD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Career Outcomes

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

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Tuition Fees

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Domestic Applies to you

Living costs

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Funding

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