Kickstart your career in Data Science

DATA SCIENCE brings great benefits to all types of businesses. It designs models that further define trends and can be used as the foundation for transformative software. One of the examples of data science is predictive analytics in e-commerce which helps to evaluate each new customer and every data collected will be used to make precise marketing campaigns.

These models can augment customer experience, and process efficiency, assist user engagement, and identify possible conditions where data can be used to crack complicated problems. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, the health care industry has been benefiting from data science by using its tools to monitor and mitigate the impact of the coronavirus. Researchers and data science professionals worldwide are using data to build accurate models of the virus spread, conduct antibody discovery and track the availability of hospital resources.

The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) affirms that big data analytics (BDA) is central to Malaysia’s digital economy. It will boost other digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of things (IoT) and advanced automation. As the BDA market in Malaysia is expected to grow in 2025, ‘data scientists’ will be a profession whose scope and area of application will see an increase in the coming years.

With that said, why not take up the challenge to explore this area and fill up the demands by registering for a Master in Data Science (MDS) at Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Information Technology (UniKL MIIT). MDS is a dual degree with an international partner, La Rochelle University (LRUniv), from France.

This programme is accredited by the Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA) and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) which means the degrees are recognised internationally. Therefore, graduates will have more opportunities to continue their education or even find employment in a European country.

This can have a huge number of benefits, including improving skills, working with people from different cultures, expanding professional networks, and attempting to increase one’s employability. A six-month industry attachment or industry project is a part of the programme in order to ensure the student is equipped with industry and professional skills.

To suit the current demand, this three-semester programme has been designed with multiple sub-areas including Big Data and Data Mining, Math and Statistics, Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Entrepreneurship. All courses are conducted on a modular basis at the UniKL-MIIT campus here in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Students will have the privilege of learning from experts in the field of data science from both universities led by Assoc. Prof. Dr Jacque Morcos from LRUniv and Prof Shahrulniza Musa, the distinguished professor from UniKL MIIT.

UniKL MIIT and LRUniv have also established a strategic partnership with the establishment of a joint ICT lab known as Universiti Kuala Lumpur – La Rochelle University – Joint ICT Laboratory (KLR-JIL) which focuses on Data Science models and knowledge, Image and content and System dynamics and adaptivity (IoT, Security, process mining). The lab aims to support and improve the data sciences programme and research carried out by both students and researchers.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity and join UniKL now. Student intakes are carried out twice per year, in January and September. For further details, visit www.unikl.edu.my or contact the Marketing and Admission (Mesra) office and speak to Ms Raziana at 012-2660774 / Ts. Nurdatillah at 017-5636371.

The article was published in The Sun newspaper on 13 September 2022