DataScience
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Bachelor of Data Science (BDatSci)

(Full-time residential programme and not online)

Announcement first year students of 2025: There will be a comprehensive information session during welcoming week (on 31 January 2025) before lectures start and before you have to register for a focal area. Please do not register for a focal area if you are uncertain and you have not attended the information session during welcome week 2025.


​​The fourth industrial revolution has a huge impact on science and technology by influencing it in extraordinary ways. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistical learning, deep learning, big data - these are all concepts at the core of a discipline called Data Science.  Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driven, and this continued transformation of work requires a substantial cadre of talented graduates with highly developed data science skills and knowledge. A qualification in Data Science is therefore highly desirable and will lead to many job opportunities.

Although various faculties have introduced some undergraduate degree programmes with Data Science as a focal area over the last few years, Stellenbosch University (SU) has launched the new undergraduate degree programme in Data Science with a true multi‐disciplinary nature. The BDatSci programme has b​een on offer at Stellenbosch University since 2021. It is offered on campus, with contact sessions. This is not offered online nor remotely.

Open day: Saturday, 5 April 2025 (presentation slides here​​) - this is for first year student in 2026.


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