Next to the knowledge in data engineering, data analytics, decision-making, business development, and legal and ethical disciplines, you will be explicitly trained in a set of essential professional skills, such as creative thinking, communicating, presenting, negotiating, debating, interviewing, and pitching. You will be practicing these in the In Action courses with real-life data.
You will learn to create value for business and understand a lot better the practicalities of doing data science in a company.
You will start programming, learning and applying data science methods from day 1 of the master's. More than one year consists of practical experience that is extremely appreciated by future employers. This will allow you to launch your career in a way that cannot be achieved through a one-year master's program.
By engaging with the company stakeholders, you will learn to shape the problem definition and select and apply the methods that fit the problem - not vice versa.
In addition to the professional skills, you will be educated in academic skills, that will allow you to do your own research in the core scientific disciplines covered by the program.