BSc Data Science (Defence) at University of Exeter

Learn about Data Science and its applications in the UK defence sector, exploring how different organisations (governmental and commercial) collaborate and leverage computing technology to support national defence and security. Gain practical experience through defence-relevant teaching , industry projects, hackathons, guest lectures, placements and employer-led activity.

Duration: 3 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: 2027 entry  |  Location: Exeter, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

This BSc Data Science degree is designed with industry and aimed at students wishing to work or research in data science. It will enable you to develop computer science skills that are increasingly required across the modern defence sector and which support defence applications including autonomous systems, decision-support tools, cyber capability, augmented reality and digitally enabled command environments. Core areas of computer science: programming; object-oriented programming; software development;

Career pathways

The broad-based skills acquired during your degree will also give you an excellent grounding for a wide variety of careers, not only those related to the defence sector but those in wider fields too. Wider career opportunities for data scientists are limitless. There is an established strong market demand for suitably skilled data scientists and data science skills are increasingly being sought across sectors beyond defence, particularly by the finance and accounting industries, supermarkets, online retailers such as Amazon, and the NHS.

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