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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027

Draft Edition - Due to be published Thursday 9th April 2026

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Degree Programme Table: Data Science Technologies (MSc) - 1 Year (Full-time) (PTMSCDSTEC1F)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Notes:
This is the Degree Programme Table (DPT) for the full-time version of the Data Science Technologies programme.

If you need any academic advice about your course choices, please email your Programme Director, Dr Adam Carter: Bayes.PGTDirector@ed.ac.uk

If you have any questions about the requirements for your programme, please email your Student Adviser, Cat Andrade-Robertsen: Bayes.StudentServices@ed.ac.uk

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Practical Introduction to Data Science

Must be taken during Full Year

EPCD11005 20 credits
Introductory Probability and Statistics

Must be taken during Semester 1

MATH11203 10 credits
Programming Skills

Must be taken during Semester 1

EPCD11018 10 credits
Applied Machine Learning

Must be taken during Semester 2

INFD11032 20 credits
Data Science, Technology and Innovation Dissertation

Must be taken during Flexible

INFD11003 60 credits
Informatics Project Proposal 20

Must be taken during Semester 2

INFD11033 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Practical Introduction to High Performance Computing

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Full Year
Practical Introduction to High Performance Computing
EPCD11001 20 credits
AND

DST Semester 1 options

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
Leading Technology and Innovation in Organisations
CMSE11495 10 credits
Software Development
EPCD11017 10 credits
Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Health and Social Care
HEIN11085 10 credits
Practical Image Analysis 1
NEME11054 10 credits
Technologies of Civic Participation
PGSP11390 10 credits
Engaging with Digital Research
PGSP11401 10 credits
AND

DST Semester 2 options

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Innovation-driven Entrepreneurship-Data Science, Technology and Innovation
CMSE11515 10 credits
Message-Passing Programming
EPCD11002 10 credits
Threaded Programming
EPCD11003 10 credits
Data Ethics in Health and Social Care
HEIN11059 10 credits
Introduction to Bioinformatics
PGBI11137 10 credits
Data Science for Manufacturing (Bayes)
PGEE11234 10 credits
OR

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

DST Semester 1 options

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
Leading Technology and Innovation in Organisations
CMSE11495 10 credits
Software Development
EPCD11017 10 credits
Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Health and Social Care
HEIN11085 10 credits
Technologies of Civic Participation
PGSP11390 10 credits
Engaging with Digital Research
PGSP11401 10 credits
AND

DST Semester 2 options

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Innovation-driven Entrepreneurship-Data Science, Technology and Innovation
CMSE11515 10 credits
Data Ethics in Health and Social Care
HEIN11059 10 credits
Introduction to Bioinformatics
PGBI11137 10 credits
Data Science for Manufacturing (Bayes)
PGEE11234 10 credits
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