Data Science and Decisions at UNSW/Bachelor of Science: Majoring in Data Science USYD (1 Viewer)

[sourish]

I'm having a hard time deciding between the Data Science course at UNSW and USYD. Could someone tell me the pros and cons of each and also provide an overall judgement on where the degree is better.

 

[iwanttogotouni]

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[sida1049]

In short, the data science major at USYD is a mix of statistics and computer science, whereas the Data Science and Decisions course at UNSW in addition has compulsory economics in it.

In my honest opinion (as someone who has studied statistics, computer science and economics), economics is worthless for data science. You'd be better off spending those extra credit points on more stats/comp sci/maths units, or anything you personally find interesting. Apart from that, doing data science at either university is just as good.

 

[captain stones]

Computing/IT is better at USYD but maths is better in UNSW. (based on QS subject rankings) You can also consider computational data science major in advanced computing degree at USYD apart form data science in the Science degree. The good thing at USYD is u can combine your interests like in science/maths/law/arts/commerce/engineering/IT/computer sicence/design/politics etc+data science, but in UNSW u can only do either combined LAW/DATA or a single data science degree. So i think USYD is more flexible and gives us more options. But if u want to specialise and get the board knowledge of the data science field I think UNSW should be better if u only want to, and are determined to do data science as your ONLY future career as it covers more things and areas while at USYD, u either focus in computational data science or mathematical data science or business analytics. I also recommend u to chekc the handbook and course content of both uni in relevant majors and courses and compare it and see which fits u better.

 

[captain stones]

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