The MIT (Stream C: Big Data Science) degree is multi-disciplinary and spreads across a number of academic faculties and departments. It is administered by the Department of Computer Science. The degree’s focus is to provide postgraduate opportunities to big data science researchers and practitioners who are aware of the data needs on the South African landscape. Graduate professionals from industry can leverage this degree to re-skill themselves in the foundational building blocks of big data science, while researchers can excel in big data and data science as research disciplines.

An appropriate honours degree. A minimum pass rate of 65% for the honours degree. A pass mark in the following first-year level higher education modules: Mathematical Statistics or Statistics or at the discretion of the Programme Organiser; Mathematics (preferably Calculus and Linear Algebra) or at the discretion of the Programme Organiser; Programming or at the discretion of the Programme Organiser.

https://www.up.ac.za/postgraduate-support/article/2959901/postgraduate-funding-opportunitiesa

Abiodun Modupe
mitc@cs.up.ac.za
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