B.Tech Data Science in Academic Collaboration with Virginia Tech at MPSTME Mumbai Offline Course

The B.Tech Data Science program is a modern degree designed to meet the increasingly aggressive demand for qualified data scientists in virtually every sector of the economy. Also called data mining, competitive intelligence, data analysis, and data statistics, data science is one of the fastest growing career opportunities in the country as companies find themselves at a crossroads of having the technology to gather massive amounts of data but lacking the skilled scientists to tell them what the data means or how to use it to inform their business practices.

Curriculum for the program includes adequate balance of fundamental / foundation, core and elective courses. The courses are based on a credit structure with 22-26 credit per semester totalling to around 180 credits over for the entire B Tech Program. Every course is assigned lectures, practicals and tutorials as per requirement. Students also undergo technical entrepreneurship and project in the 4th year. The program course content is reviewed every year with industry inputs and participation.

The school encourages students to learn through experiential mode along with class room delivery. The delivery is very actively supported by Black Board Learning Management System (BBLMS). The BBLMS facilitates learning beyond classroom through YouTube and other online content available on the net. Through this innovative teaching and learning process, students have ample opportunity to learn through different modes. The curriculum also emphasises on continuous self-learning.

Evaluation is based on continuous assessment throughout semester with appropriate weightage for in semester work, as well as end semester exams. Different modes of evaluation like open book exam, quiz and viva are available for the faculty to ensure attainment of course and program out-comes as defined above.