Data Sciencepart time degree programmes for professionals

  • Master of Science

    Master
    Degree

  • 5 semesters

    Standard period of study (amount)

  • Meschede

    Location

  • August 2025 (Germans and inhabitants)

    August 2025 (EU), July 2025 (Non-EU)

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Winter Semester only

Area of study
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Statistics
  • Engineering Informatics
Focus

Data Science, Data Science, Big Data, Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Mathematics, IT Security, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics

Target group

The course is aimed at graduates of Bachelor's programmes in the following areas: (Business) Informatics Mechanical Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering or content-related subjects that would like to qualify part-time with a Master’s degree in data science. The organisation of the degree course enables studying in the family phase or during a professional orientation phase.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

Admission requirements (Link)

Admission requirements

Completed Bachelor's degree in the amount of at least 180 credits from the following courses, whereby at least 30 credits were completed in the field of Computer Science and the degree was completed with at least an overall grade of 2.7: Computer Science Business Informatics Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering The course can also be taken if another equivalent study with comparable content and in the amount of at least 180 credits and a total grade of at least 2.7 has been completed. The examination board decides on the equivalence of the study. Recommendation: You should have access to a (preferably mobile) computer and be able to handle English-language literature.

Lecture period
  • 23.09.2024 - 07.02.2025
  • 24.03.2025 - 18.07.2025

Application deadlines

Winter semester (2024/2025)
  • Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

    01.03.2025 - 15.07.2025

  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    15.05.2025 - 31.08.2025

  • Deadlines for International Students from the European Union

    15.05.2025 - 31.08.2025

Languages of instruction

Main language

German

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    • July 2025 (EU)
    • July 2025 (Non-EU)

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    • February 2025 (EU)
    • January 2025 (Non-EU)

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