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Big Data Technologies MSc

University of Westminster
Current Status: Terminato
Course Type: Master Level:
Available Financing:
Tuition: 9.500 £ Duration y/mm: 0/12
Places Available: Credits:
Application Deadline: 15/09/2017 Admissions:
Start Date: 15/09/2017 End Date: 20/08/2018

Description

This course has been designed to enhance your professional abilities, and deepen your knowledge and understanding of emerging, state-of-the-art database technologies. It will equip you with the range of highly marketable, hands-on skills required in data modelling, and in designing, managing, monitoring and administering corporate database systems divisions, information centres and webenabled database applications.

The course combines academic study with Oracle certification training, and you will be encouraged to take the associated Oracle exams and become an Oracle Certified Associate. It is suitable for recent graduates who wish to study for a higher qualification and/or gain relevant technical and professional skills in database systems. It’s also a strong course for practitioners looking to enhance their professional abilities, develop their careers, and update their technical skills, knowledge and understanding of state-of-the-art and emerging technologies.

Contents

The following modules are indicative of what you will study on this course. For more details on course structure and modules, and how you will be taught and assessed, see the full course document on the master website.

Core modules

  • Business Information System Postgraduate Project Module
  • Systems Programming
  • Data Management and Repositories
  • Database Languages
  • Research Methods and Professional Practice

Option modules

  • Data Warehouseing and Olap
  • Database Administration and Management
  • Data Visualisation and Dash-Boarding
  • Enterprise Utility Computing
  • IT Business Models
  • Project Management
  • Requirements ad System Modelling
  • Semantic and Collaborative Technologies
  • Systems Interoperability
  • Web-Enabled Database Applications

 

Requirements

You are expected to have a good Honours degree (at least a Lower Second) from a UK university (or overseas equivalent) in an IT or computing discipline, or in another discipline that either provides important underpinning for or insight into IT and computing, or it is closely related to it (eg sciences or engineering). If you do not have the required formal qualifications, but you are already in employment, you may be considered if your role involves use for support of modelling techniques and database technologies deployed in the course.

If your first language is not English you will also need an IELTS score of at least 6.5, with 6.0 or above in each element, or equivalent.

Career Prospects

Graduates can expect to find employment as business systems analysts and designers, data analysts, database administrators, database application developers, database systems consultants, information resources managers, systems designers and systems integrators. Recent graduates have joined a variety of organisations, including Bank of America, Vodaphone, the Metropolitan Police, CGI, Network Rail, Business & Decisions, JCC Payment System, Jacobs Engineering, Virgin Media, Accenture, Chevron and a number of local authorities and NHS trust.

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