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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

DATA SCIENCE (Master)

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Program Profile

Data Science Program is designed and run as a Master’s Program with a thesis by Abdullah Gül University Social Sciences Institute. The program is taught 100% English, and international students and students from different disciplines are accepted to the program. In addition to compulsory courses such as Introduction to Data Science, Statistics, and Data Analysis; elective courses that have equivalent contents with their internationally recognized examples, such as Time Series Analysis, Strategic Thinking, etc., are also offered in the program. The program aims to help students to obtain knowledge and gain skills related to analyzing newly developing types of data such as big data through using software programs such as Phyton, R, and Stata. During the program, students complete graduate-level courses which help to develop statistical knowledge and skills, and also choose elective courses that are found in the curriculum content and belong to various subfields of interest. Before graduation, students write, present and defend a master’s thesis, which complies with the academic criteria determined by the Social Sciences Institute and are generally used, by using the knowledge and expertise gained through theoretical and applied for courses, and by the supervision of a thesis advisor.

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