Graduate Certificate in Data Science

The University of New England

UNE's Graduate Certificate in Data Science allows you to expand your expertise in data science to solve challenging problems using large and diverse data sets while you broaden your career opportunities in this booming industry.Data science specialists are in high demand thanks to the amount of data now available in workplaces worldwide. Data provides the basis for sensible, evidence-based decision making. Organisations and industries from business to health and science need skilled professionals who can tap into vast and diverse data streams to extract their meaning and value. Data scientists are responsible for building intelligent systems, mastering intuitive processes and bringing structure to data. Demand translates to opportunities for appropriately skilled and qualified workers. Average salaries for data science professionals with postgraduate qualifications in Australia are over 130,000 a year. Seek.com.au forecasts jobs growth of 12.9 per cent in the sector over the next five years. Our course will suit you if you have a relevant undergraduate degree in an area such as computer science, data science, information technology or statistics and wish to extend your specialisation in data science. You will also have the option to continue to further postgraduate study. At UNE you will focus on learning how to build data science tools and software from the ground up. This will give you a more in-depth understanding of how to develop databases, machine learning and artificial intelligence than courses that simply teach you how to use commercially available software. You will work with programming languages such as R, Python and Matlab to build real-world solutions to data science problems.By studying with UNE, you are choosing an industry leader in the provision of online lifelong learning. Year after year, students award UNE the maximum 5-star ratings for Overall Experience and Student Support in The Good Universities Guide.