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Postgraduate Diploma Optimisation and Data Analytics

University of Essex

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  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Diploma

  • Location

    Colchester Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    01-SEP-25

  • Duration

    9 months

Course summary

Our Postgraduate Diploma Optimisation and Data Analytics is aimed at those with a first degree in which the major subject was mathematics, and we expect you to have prior knowledge of statistics – for example significance testing or basic statistical distributions – and operational research such as linear programming.

Postgraduate Diplomas last for six to nine months (full-time) and include the modules and assessed work of a Masters, without a dissertation. This allows you to proceed to a Masters in mathematics if your undergraduate degree was in a different subject.

Businesses, organisations, and individuals all strive to work as effectively as possible. Operational research uses advanced statistical and analytical methods to help improve the complex decision-making processes to deliver a product or service. Working in this field, you might be identifying future needs for a business, evaluating the time-life value of a customer, or carrying out computer simulations for airlines.

You specialise in areas including:

Continuous and discrete optimisation
Time series econometrics
Heuristic computation
Experimental design
Machine learning
Linear models

Our interdisciplinary research recognises that mathematics, including what can be very abstract mathematics, is an essential part of research in many other disciplines.

Tuition fees

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(International fees)

£ 2,022month

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University information

University of Essex

University of Essex

  • University League Table

    30th

  • Campus address

    University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Computer Science

    41st out of 117 5

    65th out of 87 17

  • Entry standards

    / Max 227
    134 59%

    49th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    90.0 90%

    28th

    15

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.00 75%

    63rd

    32

  • Entry standards

    / Max 204
    130 64%

    33rd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    53.0 53%

    76th

    9

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.16 79%

    19th

    21

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