Master in

Computational Data Science

Our master programme will provide you with the key competencies that you will need to develop next-generation information systems used to describe and manage data, discover new facts and relations in the data, make predictions, and give advice to decision makers.

We live in a digital society. Human and automated activities continuously generate data, storing them in digital format. These data come from everywhere: enterprise information systems, social media, wearable equipment, and many more.

Data are like crude oil: unrefined, they are useless.

In our programme, we teach you how to become a computational data scientist, i.e. a computer scientist specialised in the development of next-generation information systems.

Data science sits at the interface between computer science, mathematics, and application domains. Our study programme covers all these areas: computer science and IT methods for managing and engineering big and complex data, mathematical tools for data interpretation and analysis, artificial intelligence techniques to extract insights from data and support decision makers, and aspects of human-computer interaction. You will participate in cutting-edge research, and apply your skills to real data from actual application domains, such as business information systems, travel and tourism, bioinformatics, healthcare, internet of things, industry 4.0, agriculture, and many more.

For your final thesis you will collaborate on research projects with major industries - such as IBM, Oracle, Siemens, and with leading research institutions, such as TU Wien, TU München and Politecnico di Milano.

At a glance

Degree class: LM-18
ECTS credits: 120
Duration of the course: 2 years
Courses will be taught in English
Places available: 40 EU + 20 non-EU
Campus: Bozen-Bolzano
Tuition fees: €1.345,50 per year

Structure of the course

Students can choose between two curricula:

Data Analytics focuses on data interpretation and analysis using techniques from mathematics, statistics, and machine learning, and on the development of IT applications to retrieve and explore data, extract insights from data, and visualise the obtained results.

Data Management deals with computer science and artificial intelligence methods for the development of IT architectures and information systems supporting data modeling, access, integration, and processing, as well as the corresponding decision making and business processes.

Study plan
> Data Analytics
> Data Management

Course offering

People

Degree Course director: Prof. Marco Montali (photo)
Student representative in the Course Council: Anjan Karmakar

Academic staff

Faculty Secretariat

Exchange programmes and internships

Currently we offer exchange programmes with more than 20 partner universities all over the world and we are part of a large network of collaboration with employers in Italy and abroad where you can undertake an optional internship with a maximum of 300 hours.

Career opportunities

Typical job profiles are:

Data Analysts that evaluate, interpret, and analyse large and complex data collections of an organisation, in order to gain new insight from data;
Data Engineers that design, implement, deploy, and maintain software solutions for data management and analysis;
Data Architects that design and manage complex IT infrastructures supporting the acquisition, maintenance, cleaning, sharing and integration of enterprise data.

On the website of AlmaLaurea you can check our outstanding statistical data about the satisfaction of our graduates, and their employability.

Go to the Survey (in Italian)

Manuel Stuefer

Backend Software Engineer at Booking.com, Amsterdam

As a kid I loved solving puzzles in creative ways, then, as a young adult, I was searching for a career which allowed me to continue my passion in solving puzzles. Computer Science was the natural choice, and thanks to the courses I attended at unibz, with its excellent student/professor ratio, I got a lot of individual attention so that I could develop my full potential in the field.

Studying at unibz

Living in South Tyrol, Housing, Scholarships, Single Subject Courses and more

International Applicants (non-EU)

Application procedure, Visa, Residence permit and more

Application

You can find all the information you need about the documents required for the application in the Study Manifesto.

Online Application
Early Bird - for EU and non-EU citizens: 1 March - 27 April 2018, noon
Late Application - for EU citizens only: 17 May - 18 July 2018, noon.

Selection Criteria
Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or Statistics; and English level B2.

Publication Ranking Lists
Early Bird: by 15 May 2018
Late Application: by 1 August 2018.

Study Manifesto

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