Today's world is changing dramatically
with tremendous technical progress
taking place in digitalization and big
data extracting knowledge and
information from data is the fundamental
challenge of the 21st century
The MSc data science is the new
interdisciplinary program at LMU Munich
It combines statistics and
informatics in order to meet diverse
requirements of the big data era the
program is funded by the elite network
of Bavaria data science is a combination
of statistics and informatics its aim is
to draw information from data as data
are ubiquitous today you should make use
of them this is the scope of data
science in our four semester master
program data science students learn both
statistical and computational methods
for collecting managing and analyzing
large and complex data sets and how to
extract knowledge and information from
these data sets
digitalization of nearly all fields of
our lives generates new demands and
challenges for society this includes
ethical questions and IT security is
becoming an important part practicals
are also very important here students
tackle real-world problems in
cooperation with our data science
business and industry partners such as
Lufthansa BMW and Siemens all based in
Munich the data science program is
entirely in English and thus it attracts
international students from around the
globe I feel that this program prepares
me well to find a good job in the
business or economy and even to pursue
doctoral study for me as a computer
scientist it offers the opportunity to
acquire a broad range of skills in
statistics as well as informatics for me
studying at LMU does not only mean
studying at an outstanding university
with an amazing international exposure
but it also means being in a very
culturally rich town near the Alps. At the
end of a long day at university
you may want to go out meet friends and
experience the Bavarian capital Munich
offers a great variety of bars and
restaurants as well as rich cultural
life this will create the perfect
balance to your studies the LMU
Munich is one of the top ranked
universities both nationally as well as
internationally and with our new
innovative data science master program
we move the best international students
to LMU and beautiful capital of
Bavaria so come to Munich and trace the
challenges and grab the opportunities of
big data and digitalization in our
master program data science at LMU
Munich
