Data Science University of Nicosia

Overview

The Data Science programme at the University of Nicosia has been designed to enable graduates of the programme to meet the demands of the data-driven economy of the future.

Key Facts:

The aim of the programme is to provide students with technical skills and practical insight to Data Science. More specifically, the programme aims at:

• Providing students with the technical and analytical skills required for acquiring, managing, analysing and extracting insight from data.

• Providing students with a strong mathematical and statistics foundation that will enable them to appropriately formulate models and apply optimization techniques for data analyses challenges.

• Providing students with software engineering and machine learning skills to design and implement scalable, reliable and maintainable solutions for data-oriented problems.

• Enabling students to assess the level of privacy and security of a technical solution to a data science problem.

• Preparing students to pursue further postgraduate education and research that require expertise in data science and analytical reasoning (such as business analytics, finance, health, bioinformatics).

• Providing students with a strong sense of social commitment, global vision and independent self-learning ability.

Career Prospects

A degree in Data Science equips students with the skills to pursue a wide range of career opportunities, such as Data Analyst, Business Intelligence, and Quantitative Analyst; Data Engineer; AI/ML Engineer; Data Consultant and Strategist; Data Protection Officer, and more.