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NCI's Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Data Science focuses on hands-on learning, equipping students with skills to address real-world challenges and drive data-informed business decisions. With a growing global demand for skilled data science professionals, this program delivers outstanding career opportunities for graduates.
Students completing this program will master data transformation, modeling, mining, and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from data. They'll learn to develop and deploy data science applications that tackle practical problems, effectively present analytical findings to support decision-making, and adhere to professional, ethical, and legal standards in data handling.
Alumni of the BSc (Honours) in Data Science pursue careers across diverse sectors such as multinational corporations, financial institutions, and professional services firms. Potential career paths include positions as data scientists, business intelligence specialists, customer analytics managers, risk assessment analysts, knowledge engineers, and data programming experts.
Duration: 4 years
Minimum entry requirements are a grade H5 and above in two higher level subjects together with a minimum of O6 in four other subjects. A minimum of grade H5 must be obtained in Mathematics. A minimum of grade O6 must be obtained in English.
IELTS: 6.0; TOEFL Internet Based: 78; TOEFL Computer: 213; PTE Academic: 50; Cambridge European Framework: B2+; Cambridge Exams: FCE; Irish Leaving Certificate: Ordinary Grade D.