UndergraduateData Science
Bachelor of Data Science and Decisions
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
About this program
The University of Wollongong's Bachelor of Data Science and Decisions is a newer-generation degree pairing statistics and computing with decision science and business analytics, pitched at the gap between a pure CS degree and a pure statistics degree, aimed at students who want to work as analysts or data scientists rather than software engineers or statisticians specifically. Taught jointly by the business faculty and computing school, which shows up in units combining optimisation and decision theory with programming and machine learning.
Because it's a relatively new offering, cohort sizes are still modest, and the school has used that to keep project work genuinely individualised rather than templated group assignments.
Fees & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
Study plan in 4 parts
- Year 1: Introduction to Programming
- Statistics for Data Science
- Business Decision Making
- Mathematics for Data Science
- Year 2: Databases
- Machine Learning Fundamentals
- Optimisation and Decision Analysis
- Data Visualisation
- Year 3: Big Data Analytics
- Applied Business Analytics
- Capstone Data Science Project
- electives
- applied project with an industry or research dataset
- final year
Career & PR pathway
Occupations this degree typically leads to, and their skilled-migration list status
Data ScientistANZSCO 224115
A newer ANZSCO code (added 2022) that sits on CSOL only, supporting the employer-sponsored 482 and 186. Not on MLTSSL or STSOL, so it does not currently open the points-tested 189, 190, or 491, and no state nominates this exact code.
Assessed by Australian Computer Society (ACS)
Data AnalystANZSCO 224114
Added to ANZSCO alongside Data Scientist in 2022. Sits on CSOL only, supporting the employer-sponsored 482 and 186, not the points-tested 189, 190, or 491.
Assessed by Australian Computer Society (ACS)
StatisticianANZSCO 224113
On MLTSSL, supporting the 189, 190, and 491, with a VETASSESS skills assessment.
Assessed by VETASSESS
List membership changes over time and does not guarantee an invitation. See the skilled occupation lists guide and the points calculator before relying on this for a visa decision.
Admissions
ATAR 80 or equivalent, Mathematics recommended
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