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Western Sydney University

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Graduate Diploma in Data Science

  • Graduate Diploma

Increasingly in the digital age data plays an important role in most, if not all, occupations. Extracting information from data has become a science in itself, blending skill sets from mathematics, statistics and computing.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
Course Code
095723A
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Mar, Jul

About this course

Increasingly in the digital age data plays an important role in most, if not all, occupations. Extracting information from data has become a science in itself, blending skill sets from mathematics, statistics and computing. With a strong applications focus, this program provides a grounding in the nature of data and skills required to embark on data driven investigations.

Study locations

Parramatta South

Career pathways

As a data science graduate, you can look forward to career opportunities in:

  • Data Analyst
  • Data Engineer
  • Data Scientist
Data Analyst

Data Analyst's extract data and use it to help companies make better business decisions. This could mean figuring out how to price new materials for the market, how to reduce transportation costs or propose new solutions to save the company money.

Data Scientist

As a Data Scientist you will analyse data and extract meaning from it. This includes working with unstructured and structured data, data cleansing and data preparation.

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Computing & Information Systems courses at Western Sydney University.
81%
Overall satisfaction
83.3%
Skill scale
61.9%
Teaching scale