Analysts for the Most Valuable Resource of the Information Society
Data Science is a young, but clearly established and highly demanded field. The interdisciplinary role of data scientists requires a multi-faceted course of study. After all, data analysis is not an end in itself, but must always be considered in the context of the tasks and goals of a company or organization. Graduates of the program can use their skills to support decision-making processes in all phases.
Subject to accreditation by AQ Austria, the language of the Master’s program Data Science will change to English.
Program
Facts
- Start of semester: September
- Duration: 120 ECTS credits, 4 semesters
- Attendance times: Courses take place on three fixed days of the week (Mon-Fri), exceptions are possible. Evening courses take place between 5:50 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. The specific days of the week will be announced.
- Degree: Master of Science (MSc)
- Mode: Part-time | german, 1/3 english (from the Wintersemester 2024/25 completely in English)
- Costs per semester: € 363.36 tuition fee, € 24.70 ÖH fee; € 3,000 Tuition fee for students from third countries: exceptions and information
- Remote learning elements (blended learning)
- Recommended semester abroad (optional): 3, 4
- Available Double Degree program(s): Buenos Aires Institute of Technology
- Perform the complete data collection process according to the current state of the art, for example for textual data, image and video data or sensor data.
- Prepare and model this data for analysis.
- Conduct analyses taking into account ethical, data protection, infrastructure and business aspects.
- Compare, select, and apply relevant analysis methods, approaches, and algorithms.
- Communicate the results of the analyses in a way that is appropriate for the target group and transfer them to operations.
- Plan, implement, and successfully manage Data Science projects in consideration of business needs and for the purpose of value creation.
- for Data Science projects to elicit requirements and define goals.
- Plan and implement Data Science projects as an interface together with the business department and the IT department.
- Communicate with technical and non-technical professionals when designing and implementing Data Science projects, and present ideas and implementation proposals.
- Elective 1 (2nd semester)
- Smart City: Collection & evaluation of sensor data, application to optimization of urban development (e.g., detection of heat hot spots, smart metering etc.)
- Process Analytics: Process analysis, process improvement, process effectiveness, adherence to specifications/compliance
- Data Warehouse & BI: Star Scheme, ETL-Process, Reporting, OLAP
- Elective 2 (2nd semester)
- Natural Language Processing: text transformation, preprocessing, supervised and unsupervised models, sentiment analysis, generative AI
- Finance: Dealing with financial time series, ARIMA models, tools in R
- Big Data Analytics: Storage & processing of very large amounts of data, parallel processing with Hadoop ecosystem, analyzes with Spark/Kafka
- Elective 3 (3rd semester)
- Smart Maintenance: Reliability Analysis, Time-to-Failure, Machine learning methods.
- Marketing Analytics: Real-time behavior-based marketing, user profiling, pricing strategies, market simulation
- Trustworthy AI: Data Bias, Fairness, Explainability, Model Robustness
- Elective 4 (3rd semester)
- Renewable Energies: smart metering, prediction of demand curves, solar panel detection
- Medical Imaging: Treatment of medical data, image recognition processes using deep learning methods (e.g. tumor detection), U-Net Architecture
- Security & Privacy in AI: Anonymization, Federated Learning; Attacks, Model Robustness, Adversarial examples & defense
Career Prospects
This is an exceptionally high-demand job description, and this degree program strikes a chord with the labor market’s need for data professionals.
Requirements
Master’s degree programs build on a completed bachelor’s degree program and allow students to specialize or focus on topics in more detail or to expand their existing expertise.
You must meet subject-matter requirements to be admitted to the Data Science master’s degree program. Prerequisites include a bachelor’s degree from a UAS in a relevant subject matter or an equivalent degree from a recognized post-secondary educational institution (at least 180 ECTS credits) in Austria or another country.
If basic equivalence has been established except for a few missing prerequisites, the program director can require students to take exams to establish full equivalence. These exams are taken during the master’s program.
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The next step to study Master Data Science is to apply via our online application system:
- The entire application process is handled via a dedicated application website.
- Your data is stored securely and is being treated with strict confidentiality.
- A registration system makes it possible to start an application and complete it at a later point in time.
- Once you have entered your user data and uploaded documents, you can also use them for subsequent applications.
