Master of Science - Optimisation and Data Analytics

This MSc Optimisation and Data Analytics will appeal to those who's first degree included mathematics as its major subject. The University expect students to have prior knowledge of statistics – for example significance testing or basic statistical distributions – and operational research such as linear programming.

Businesses, organisations, and individuals all strive to work as effectively as possible. Operational research uses advanced statistical and analytical methods to help improve the complex decision-making processes to deliver a product or service. Working in this field, students might be identifying future needs for a business, evaluating the time-life value of a customer, or carrying out computer simulations for airlines.

MSc Optimisation and Data Analytics will equip students with employability skills like problem solving, analytical reasoning, data analysis, and mathematical modelling, as well as training students in independent work, presentation and writing skills. Students' exposure to current active research areas, such as decomposition algorithms, prepares them for further study at doctoral level. Graduates of this course now hold key positions in government, business and academia, and work for global companies such as Ocado Technology and Dunnhumby, as well as for HM Revenue & Customs, as data and business intelligence analysts.