MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DATA SCIENCE
The Faculty of Computer and Information Systems (FCIS), Islamic University of Madinah (IUM) has established a graduate program for the faculty including Master Program in Data Science. IUM’s Master program in Data Science, rather than just adapting to the advent of Big Data, is an analytical degree program designed from the ground up to focus on the latest systems, tools, and algorithms to store, retrieve, process, analyze, visualize, and synthesize large data. A central goal of the program is to build systems that integrate in a coherent manner the full data cycle: from data gathering to data visualization and data synthesis aided by computer-human interaction. Every student is required to complete before graduation a competitive Research Thesis in the area and take many fundamental courses covering the various dimensions of Data Science.
Program Mission:
The mission of the data science program is to ensure the graduation of qualified data scientists who have a high academic competence with proven research and entrepreneurship skills to deal effectively with data centric complex problems in real-life. This will allow our graduates to pursue careers in private and public sectors for the betterment of the local and global community.
Professions/jobs for which students are qualified:
Graduating with a Master’s in Data Science allows students to pursue work with a wide variety of
employers, achieve administrative, consulting, and leadership positions as your expertise
expands and applies for positions that bring you better life satisfaction. Some of the key job titles
are as follows:
❖ Data Science Lecturers / Teaching Assistants
❖ Specialists in Data Science
❖ Data Science Research Assistant
❖ Data Scientist in Industry Private or Government
❖ Data Scientist in Companies
❖ Data Scientist in Banks
❖ Data Science Team Lead
❖ Data Science Manager
❖ Data Architect
❖ Data Engineer
❖ Decision Scientist
❖ Machine Learning Engineer
❖ Visual Data Analysts