1 Year (Part-Time)

MSc Data Analytics

Advocating Graduate Education Since 2007

 “DATA IS THE NEW OIL.”
— THE ECONOMIST, 6TH MAY, 2017 1

A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar

concerns are being raised for data, the oil of the digital era. As
the ultimate renewable resource, data is only useful when it’s
refined. Discover how Data Analytics refines the new oil to fuel
and power our digital future.

1 https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/05/06/the-worlds-most-valuable-resource-is-no-longer-oil-but-data

03 Welcome Message 09 About This Course

04 About London Metropolitan University, UK 11 Programme Structure
05 Notable Alumni 12 Core Curriculum
06 Why Choose London Met? 15 Career Opportunities
07 Rankings & Recognition 17 Same Degree as Awarded on Campus
08 London Met School of Computing and Digital Media 19 Admission Criteria & Fees

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WELCOME MESSAGE
A warm welcome to the London Metropolitan University (London Met). We are delighted that
you are considering joining us to study for your postgraduate qualification. Based in one
of the world’s most exciting capital cities, London Met is home to a diverse community of
inspiring and determined learners, teachers and innovative thinkers.

London Metropolitan University adds real social value to students, staff and communities.
We give students the skills and opportunities to transform their lives and careers. We meet
the needs of the London labour market, and our staff and students collaborate with city-
wide partners on high impact research and knowledge exchange initiatives which keep our
city great.

We are also global. The education we provide prepares students to live and work anywhere in
the world, from fast-paced cities to remote rural communities. We have valuable partnerships
with education organisations worldwide, providing opportunities for students to access our
high-quality provision in their own countries. We collaborate with a host of international
organisations to support their aims, and our research has global impact.

We believe that every person in this country and across the globe deserves a chance to
transform their own life and the lives of others through higher education. Education provides
a catalyst for social equality. Students come to London Metropolitan University when
they recognise that they are not prepared to settle for the life and opportunities that were
determined for them at birth. The education we offer has changed the lives of so many of
our students and, in doing so, we are helping to drive real social change and transformation
in this country and beyond.

Professor Lynn Dobbs

Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive
of London Metropolitan University

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 ABOUT
LONDON METROPOLITAN
UNIVERSITY, UK

Graduate Centre , London Metropolitan University

Based in one of the world’s most exciting capital cities, London Metropolitan University (commonly known
as London Met) is a public research university in England, United Kingdom. With a long rich academic his-
tory dating back to 1848, it is one of the London’s oldest educational institutions.

Home to a diverse and vibrant community of inspiring and determined learners, teachers, and innovative
thinkers, it boasts of 9,600 students from more than 140 nationalities. Having invested heavily in its facilities,
and now owning several state-of-the-art research centres, London Met is proud that courses have re-
ceived top marks from the UK’s Quality Assurance Agency with many of its quality courses accredited by
a wide range of professional bodies.

Known for its first-class facilities, career focus, teaching excellence and location, London Met has devel-
oped into a modern, cosmopolitan university with a strong reputation for widening access into education.

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 Clock Tower, London Metropolitan University

NOTABLE ALUMNI
Prince Philip S a d i q Kh a n Je re my   C o r by n Lh a m o T h o n d up I a n M. C ook
D u ke o f Ed i n b urg h Mayo r o f Lo ndo n Former Leader, Dalai L ama 14t h & Chai rma n , Pre s ide n t
L ab our Par t y N ob el Prize Winner & CE O,
(1989) Colga te -Pa lmo live

Arif Islam J u lie n Ka s pa ri a n Da to’ M o h d Sh uk r i e Jul i a G r i e rso n M a r k Kony n

M o h d Sa l l e h
C EO & M an ag i n g CE O, Group CEO, Dep ut y CEO, Group CI O,
D irec to r, Sum m i t BNP Pa ri ba s Secu ri ti es Malaysia Airp or t s N ewcast le Universit y AIA
C om m un i cat i o n s Ltd Ser v i ces H o ng Ko ng in S ingap ore

Damian Bush Da to’ B e n j a m i n H K Ta n g Ro l a n d H a m a n n A l i stair Gough

Dav i d so n
M a na g i n g Di re c to r, Ma na g i ng D i recto r, Managing Director, Managing Director, Gene ra l Ma n a g e r,
G lo b al Sp e c t r um Pi co P te Mercu ri Interna ti o na l DB S B ank Head of APAC, Pico The H o n g ko n g a n d
Ltd ( Si n g ap o re Sp o r t s H u b) (Si ng a po re) P te Ltd S han g h a i Ho te ls , L imite d

Ach raf Haj jaji H u gh Ed m i s to n Si m o n Tay l o r Pe te r C. D ra m i n s k y Ja n e Wood

D eput y G e n e ral Seni o r Vi ce Pres i dent , S enior Vice President , Regional Vice President & Vice Pre s ide n t ,
M a na g e r, Si ng a po re Ma na g em ent Project Management , General Manager, People,
M erce d e s- Be n z Uni vers i t y L az ada Four S easons Hotelsand S &P G lo b a l P la t t s
Resor t s

Th o mas van de M e e r Ud aya n ga n i Fi r uz a Ka r i m ova G ay l e C o r n i ck R ut h Morgan

L i ya n a a ra c h c h i
Vice Pre s i d e n t , C us tom er A s s i s ta nt Vi ce Pres i d ent , E xecut ive Director, HR Director, Head, Le a rn in g Ce n t re,
E x pe r i e n ce De s i gn , Credi t Su i s se Ba nk , Head, Malw are Protect ion The Walt Disney Comp any L ASAL L E Co lle g e o f
O C B C Ban k Si ng a po re & N et work S ecurit y, t he A r t s S in g a p o re
S t andard Char tered B ank

BE PART OF AN EVER GROWING MASTERS

ALUMNI NETWORK IN ASIA.

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WHY CHOOSE LONDON METROPOLITAN
UNIVERSITY?
Globally recognised teaching and research
Lecturers at the University are leaders in their field and, following the last Research Ex-
cellence Framework, over two-thirds of the University’s research output was judged to
be world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised.

Great courses and facilities

Many London Met courses have received top marks from the UK’s Quality Assurance
Agency. Many of these are accredited by a wide range of professional bodies ensuring
students’ qualification carries extra weight.

Employability
London Met puts employability at the heart of the curriculum to help their students get
that dream job on graduation with a five-star promise aiming to provide them with op-
portunities that ensure they get the most out of their London Met experience.

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 RANKINGS & RECOGNITION

The Complete University Guide 2021 1 THE Europe Teaching Rankings 2019 5
• 22 nd in London • Top 201+ European Teaching
• 16 th in London for Computer Science

The Guardian University League Tables 2021 2 Teaching Excellence Framework 2017 6
• 21 st in London • Awarded bronze for teaching excellence
• 13 th in London for Computer Science &
Information Systems

Times and The Sunday Times Good University London Metropolitan University complies
Guide 2021 3 with the academic standards monitored by
• 20th in London the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher
• 17th in London for Computer Science Education (QAA), UK. These standards are
the same for all programmes. All London
Met Degrees are recognised by the UK
government. 7

QS Global World Rankings 2021 4

• Ranked Top 1000 universities in the world

1 https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings 5 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/europe-teaching/2019#!/page/0/
2 https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2020/sep/05/the-best-uk-uni- length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/undefined
versities-2021-league-table 6 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/teaching-excellence-framework-tef-re-
3 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/good-university-guide-in-full-tp6dzs7wn sults-2017
4 https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2021 7 https://www.qaa.ac.uk/reviewing-higher-education/quality-assurance-reports/provid-
er?UKPRN=10004048

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 London Metropolitan University Campus, UK

LONDON MET SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND

DIGITAL MEDIA
London Met School of Computing and Digital Media offers high-quality teaching underpinned by strong
industry-relevant research.

London Metropolitan University provides 6 Research Centres for researchers, students and industry ex-
perts to develop new approaches and best practice, of which includes:

Intelligent Systems Research Centre

Media, Culture and Creative

Technologies Research Group

Statistics, Operational Research and

Mathematics (StORM)

London Met School of Computing and Digital Media is one of UK’s first Cisco
academies with some of the most advanced networking labs in the country.

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ABOUT THIS COURSE
This postgraduate course will equip you with the theoretical, technical, and practical skills required to
become a data analyst. With an expert teaching team, access to specialist software and work on real-life
business cases, you will be well prepared for a career in data analytics upon graduation. You will also be
trained to use software and programming tools currently used by professionals in industry. You will get in
contact with:

R and Python are both open- IBM SPSS Statistics is a software SAS is a statistical software suite
source programming languages package used for interactive, or developed by SAS Institute for data
with a large community. batched, statistical analysis. management, advanced analytics
and more.

Tableau is a data visualization Oracle Database is a multi-model Apache Hadoop is an open-source

software that is used for data science database management system software facilitating a network of
and business intelligence. produced and marketed by Oracle computers to solve problems involving
Corporation. massive amounts of data and
computation.

Familiarity with these tools will greatly enhance your employability upon graduation.

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EXECUTIVE
FLEXIBILITY

FIND THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN YOUR LIFE, STUDY

& PROFESSIONAL CAREER.

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PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
Designed to accommodate and complement the busy commitments of today’s global managers and
professionals, the 1-year (part time) MSc Data Analytics programme comprises of 6 modules plus a
MSc Project which are delivered on a modular basis.

Data Analysis and Data Mining for Data Modelling and OLAP Programming for Data
Visualization Business Intelligence Techniques for Data Analytics Analytics

Statistical Modelling Work Related Learning MSc Project

and Forecasting

DELIVERY STRUCTURE
Each module (except MSc Project) is delivered over two consecutive full weekends (Saturdays & Sundays)
per month by qualified academia with extensive years of professional practice experience. You will learn
through means of interactive lectures, experiential skill workshops, and group discussions / role plays.

SAT SUN MON - FRI SAT SUN

9.00 AM TO 9.00 AM TO REVISION 9.00 AM TO 9.00 AM TO

5.30 PM 5.30 PM BREAK 5.30 PM 5.30 PM

ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY
The course is assessed in a number of ways including written reports, practical and research assignments,
demonstrations, presentations, group work, examinations and MSc project.

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 DEVELOPING FUTURE
TECHNOLOGISTS
AND DATA EXPERTS.

EMBRACE & EMERGE WITH THE LATEST 

CORE CURRICULUM
The 1 year (part time) Master of Science Data Analytics consists of 6 modules
and 1 project, structured around the work commitments and priorities of working
professionals.

Data Analysis and Visualization Data Modelling and OLAP Techniques for
Data Analytics
The module covers descriptive statistics for
exploratory data analysis, correlation analysis The module introduces relational data modelling
and linear regression model. Graph and text data and multidimensional data modelling techniques
analysing techniques for web and big data and for data analytics. It enables students to acquire
reporting the results and presenting the data with skills in advanced SQL and OLAP. The module is
visualisation techniques are also discussed. A designed to help students with practical skills in
substantial practical element is integrated into the preparing data for analysis which usually takes
module to enable students to apply data analysis 50%-70% of data analytical project time. Big Data
and visualisation techniques for real world data analytics platforms will also be introduced.
analytical problems.
Programming for Data Analytics
Data Mining for Business Intelligence
The module covers common programming
This module provides an appreciation of data data structures, flow controls, data input and
mining concepts, techniques, and process for output, and error handling. In particular, the
business Intelligence. It covers data mining module places emphasis on data manipulation
techniques for both supervised learning and and presentation for data analysis. A substantial
unsupervised learning. It is designed to help practical element is integrated into the module to
equip the students with practical skills in applying enable students to use a programming language
data mining techniques in a modern business to prepare data for analysis and develop data
environment. analytical applications.

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  TECHNOLOGIES & KNOWLEDGE

Statistical Modelling and Forecasting MSc Project

This module will introduce students to modern The module provides students with the experience
statistical modelling techniques and how those of planning and bringing to fruition a major piece
techniques can be used for prediction and of individual work. The module aims to encourage
forecasting. Throughout the statistical environment and reward individual inventiveness and
and software R will be used in conjunction with application of effort through working on research
relevant statistical libraries. The module will or company projects. The project is an exercise
introduce modern regression techniques, discuss that may take a variety of forms depending on
different model selection techniques and how the nature of the project and the subject area.
those techniques can be used for prediction
purpose.

Work Related Learning

The module enables students to undertake an

appropriate short period of professional activity,
related to their course at level 7, with a business
or community organisation and to gain credit
for their achievements. The activity can be a
volunteering activity, employment activity, an
activity within the Faculty of Computing Virtual
Business Environment (VBE), placement or business
start-up activity.

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 BIG DATA AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS SERVICES ARE
PROJECTED TO REACH S$37 BILLION BY 2022.
— EDB SINGAPORE, 23RD OCTOBER 20181

1 https://www.edb.gov.sg/en/news-and-events/insights/innovation/singapore-s-big-ambitions-for-big-data-in-2019

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Upon completion of the course, graduates will be well-equipped with the theoretical, technical and practical
competencies required in this current area of economic growth. Possible future career options include that
of:

Data Scientist Data Analyst Digital Analyst

Big Data Consultant Statistical Analyst Data Modeller

LinkedIn data revealed the top 5 fastest growth rate jobs in Singapore since 2017 1:

Data scientist 17x

3.0x Content specialist
5.5x
Cyber security 3.0x
Head of digital
specialist 3.4x
User experience
designer

“I chose London Met because of the opportunity to study the

emerging and advanced subject that is data analytics and to
broaden my horizons. I wanted to work inside classrooms where the
students were diverse, which is also why I chose this University.”

— Subeksha Shrestha, MSc Data Analytics

1 https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/here-are-the-5-fastest-growing-jobs-in-singapore-and-why-many-are-filled-by-foreign

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GLOBAL
CONNECTIONS

At London Met, you will find an interesting mix of

students and faculty members from a diverse variety of
educational backgrounds, industries, and cultures - each
offering his or her own unique perspective and insights.

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JOIN A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF 150,000 ALUMNI .

Graduation Ceremony, London Metropolitan University

SAME DEGREE AS AWARDED

ON CAMPUS
Upon successful completion of the programme, you will be
awarded a Master of Science Data Analytics (MSc) degree
by London Metropolitan University.

Graduation ceremonies are held annually in Singapore and

London, where you have a choice to graduate in either of
these locations.

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TAKE THE
NEXT STEP.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO TURN DATA INTO INSIGHTS.

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 Graduation Ceremony, London Metropolitan University

ADMISSION CRITERIA
Candidates are expected to contribute to the class learning experiences in a cohort and peer
learning environment.

A 2.2 UK first degree or equivalent in any Applicants with relevant professional

discipline that involves an element of experience and all matured candidates
data analysis. above 30 years old, with a minimum of 8
years working experience may be
considered on a case-to-case basis.

Minimum IELTS score of 6.0 with no component below 5.5 (or an equivalent English language
test).

HOW TO APPLY
• Completed Application Form
• Copies of Certificates and Transcripts
• Updated Professional Resume/CV
• Copy of NRIC/Passport
• Application fee of S$214

FINANCING YOUR MASTER’S

The total investment (inclusive of materials, assessment fees etc.) for the MSc Data Analytics
programme is S$24,800 (before prevailing GST), payable in 4 installments:

Fees Payable

1st installment – upon acceptance S$ 6,200

2nd installment (before 3rd month) S$ 6,200
3rd installment (before 5th month) S$ 6,200
4th installment (before 7th month) S$ 6,200
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