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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of DeliveryFrequency Of Classes
EnglishSelf Study, Virtual ClassroomVideo and Text BasedWeekends

Course Overview

All around the world, companies and enterprises have gone through a high rise of need for talented Data Science Professionals with potential to make informed and correct decisions in respect to their businesses. A study from 2019 says that positions as many as 97,000 were left vacant due to a shortage of qualified data analytics professionals.

The Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science by Eruditus helps the candidates to make business decisions accurately by providing them with real world case studies to interpret and gain insights from. Programming languages like PythonR language and RDBMS for data warehousing are some concepts that will allow the candidates to sharpen their understanding and easily meet the problems they will face head on. 

The Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science online course puts special emphasis on the practical learning of the candidates by offering them capstone projects and teaching them about practical business applications. The Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science syllabus mentions every detail while going over statistical techniques so that the candidates have every tool at their disposal when leaving with the certificate.  

The Highlights

  • Online sessions
  • 1 year long 
  • Personalized career development services
  • Hands-on exposure to Python, R, and SQL
  • TAPMI Centre for Executive Learning alumni status

Programme Offerings

  • Real World Case Studies
  • Exercises
  • Capstone Projects
  • assignments
  • Programming language learning

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
yesTAPMI Manipal
  • The fee costs a total of Rs. 1,65,000 + GST for the candidates
  • The fees have to be deposited in 4 installments by the applicants.

Installment 1

Rs. 20,000 + GST

Installment 2

Rs. 55,000 + GST

Installment 3 

Rs. 45,000 + GST

Installment 4

Rs. 45,000 + GST


Eligibility Criteria

Candidates must have had a level of exposure to quantitative subjects to be eligible to join the online Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science. Mathematics as well as statistics is the subject of preference for the applicants.

Work Experience

Applicants are required to have a minimum of 1 year of work experience to be eligible for the course.

Education

Candidates need to have a graduation degree in order to be eligible for admission into the course.

Certification Qualifying Details

To qualify for the programme certificate candidates are required to have a minimum of 70% attendance. The candidates will also have to give online examinations after every module and they are not allowed to fail in any more than 2 modules unless they want to attain the programme certificate.

What you will learn

Knowledge of ExcelKnowledge of PythonMachine learningR Programming

The candidates will have earned a great skill set by the time they have completed the Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science training and received a certificate.

  • Applicants will learn a variety of analytical techniques which they can put up for use on a number of business applications.
  • Candidates will be taught to analyze and predict the obstacles as well as how to respond to them by the help of fundamental statistical analysis
  • Data warehousing techniques will help candidates in formulating insights into the business industry. 
  • Applicants will also learn about ML algorithms like lasso regression, decision trees and K-means clustering
  • Modelling techniques will teach the applicants to explore further data analytics in a predictive manner
  • Simple and multiple regression, as well as Bayesian inference, will be an important part to the syllabi of the applicants
  • Lastly, the applicants will learn social media analytics, pricing analytics as well as data storytelling with data visualisation.

Who it is for

  • Business heads who manage analytics, data scientists, businessmen and data analysts are a perfect fit for the Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science online course.
  • Small business owners could also use this course to stabilise and further expand their enterprises.
  • Managers and professionals in the automation projects will also benefit greatly from the course. 
  • This Data Science certification course  is also designed to be a tailored fit for leaders and consultants of the business world.

Application Details

Candidates who are interested and wish to take admission into the programme have to go through the following procedure.

Step 1: Candidates are required to go to the official website of the course.

Step 2: On the website, the candidates would find an icon saying Apply Now. 

Step 3: After the candidates have clicked on the icon, they will be directed to the application form page of the course.

Please note, the application form for the course is not open yet as the admission is not underway.

Step 4: After filling out the form and submitting it, candidates will be sent an email if they were selected for the course.

Step 5: The applicants are required to make the payment of the first installment of the course within a week of the selection.

The Syllabus

  • Data Cleaning & Preparation
  • Advanced Lookup Functions
  • Advanced Formula Techniques

  • Volume, Velocity & Variety in Data
  • Operational & Analytic Data
  • Relational Databases & SQL

  • Text Processing in an R Environment
  • Basics of R Language
  • Data Manipulation in R

  • Booleans & Conditionals
  • Sequence Mutation and Accumulation Patterns
  • Operators & Operands

  • Frequentist vs. Bayesian Inference 
  • Basics of Statistics

  • Inference and means
  • Inference and significance testing

  • Time Series Analysis
  • Simple & Multiple Regression
  • Understanding Endogeneity

  • Lasso Regression
  • Classification in Machine Learning
  • Decision Trees
  • K–Means Cluster Analysis

  • Pricing Analytics
  • Social Media Analytics
  • Customer Lifetime Value Analysis

  • Selling Insights in a Business Context
  • Data Visualization Methods
  • Connecting Information & Action

TAPMI Manipal Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: What is the Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science online course duration?

The online Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science course has been designed to teach the candidates its contents in detail and they last for a year. The sessions are 3 hour long and are delivered every Saturday.

2: What are the eligibility criterions for the course?

The course requires that the candidates must be a graduate and that they have a minimum of 1-year experience. It also asks them to have prior knowledge of quantitative subjects.

3: What is the course pedagogy?

The course offers live interactive sessions, exercises, and assignments to give the candidates a conceptual understanding. Real-world case studies and capstone projects develop their practical learning.    

4: What are the criteria for attaining a programme certificate?

The candidates need to have a minimum of 70% attendance. They will also give online tests at the end of each module and they are not allowed to fail any more than two of them to attain the certificates.

5: What career services will the candidates receive from the course?

Eruditus career services offer four components to the applicants of the course which are career management, career coaching, mock interview, and job search support.

6: Which institute is offering this course?

The T.A. Pai Management Institute of Manipal, Karnataka is offering this course. It is one of the only 5% of the institutes in the world that have AACSB accreditations.

7: What is Eruditus?

Eruditus is led by the alumni of Harvard and INSEAD. They offer customised and open programmes by collaborating with prestigious universities to teach candidates about business applications.  

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