Study Plan

For more information on the program's structure and mandatory and optional course units for the 2026/27 academic year, please refer to NOVA IMS' academic offer brochure. The brochure is available for download on the Master's in Data Science and Advanced Analytics, with a specialization in Business Analytics page.

1^st year - Fall Semester

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Course Units	Type	Duration	ECTS
Big Data and Cloud Computing	Elective	Quarterly	3,5
Big Data Modelling and Management	Elective	Quarterly	3,5
Data Mining	Elective	Semester	7,5
Data Stream Mining	Elective	Semester	7,5
Digital Transformation	Elective	Annual	3,5
Ethics in Data Science	Elective	Semester	7,5
Exploratory Topics in Artificial Intelligence	Elective	Semester	7,5
Machine Learning	Elective	Semester	7,5
Programming for Data Science	Elective	Quarterly	4
Programming Methods	Elective	Quarterly	4
Statistical Modelling	Elective	Semester	7,5
Statistics for Data Science	Elective	Semester	7,5

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Course Units	Type	Duration	ECTS
Business Cases with Data Science	Elective	Semester	7,5
Business Intelligence	Elective	Semester	7,5
Business Process Analytics	Elective	Quarterly	3,5
Computational Intelligence for Optimization	Elective	Semester	7,5
Deep Learning	Elective	Semester	7,5
Explainable Artificial Intelligence	Elective	Quarterly	4
Machine Learning Operations	Elective	Quarterly	4
Natural Language Processing	Elective	Quarterly	4
Network Analysis	Elective	Quarterly	4
Neural and Evolutionary Learning	Elective	Quarterly	4
Parallel Computing	Elective	Quarterly	4
Reinforcement Learning	Elective	Quarterly	4
Storing and Retrieving Data	Elective	Quarterly	4