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Graduate Diploma in Data Science

  • Graduate Diploma

In an increasingly data-driven world, learn how to manage, protect and leverage data collected from everyday activities to drive business decisions, solve social problems, and inform better healthcare.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 year full-time
Course Code
G1082, 096881A

About this course

Increasingly, companies are using large datasets that have been generated by business activities and social media to uncover trends and insights that can be used to tailor products and services, anticipate demand, improve performance, or contribute to solving complex social, health and science-related problems.

Equip yourself with the analytical skills needed to work with big data. This course is taught with a computational focus that combines information technology with mathematics and statistics.

The course is designed for information technology graduates and people working in information technology-related fields and provides the knowledge and skills IT professionals need to work with big data.

You'll benefit from an emphasis on data resources management, business and data analytics and local area network design. You may also choose to work on an advanced study project on your topic of choice to solve a current problem in the information technology industry.

Study locations

Perth

Career pathways

When you graduate, you'll have the necessary skills to manage, protect and leverage big data with employment opportunities in a wide range across industries such as telecommunications, health, education, architecture, engineering, law and government.

Careers could include:

  • Data Analyst
  • Data Modeller
  • Data and Analytics Manager
  • Business Intelligence Architect.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Computing & Information Systems courses at Murdoch University.
76.5%
Overall satisfaction
82.4%
Skill scale
73.5%
Teaching scale