Your brain analyses your memories and experiences in a flash. It can learn and reprogramme itself to adapt to new input. It also cleans and unscrambles the data, then converts it so you understand and make the right choices. But… how does this work in a company, with no mind of its own?

The Applied Mathematics / Data Science programme qualifies you to be the brain of an organisation. In order words, it enables you to understand and manipulate data, develop software around it, and everything in between. With these skills, you can build and improve digital systems, apps, AI and other self-learning tools. Or help optimise business operations and professionally influence decisions on a large scale. You’ll play a key role in whatever field you wish to specialise.

Mathematical Engineers, a name given to experts on both mathematics and IT, can be found everywhere: working behind the scenes as data scientists, software developers or statisticians – or more in the foreground, as business analysts, self-made entrepreneurs or consultants. This usually takes place in fields like IT, tech, finance, risk assessment and logistics. In turn, these fields cover every industry imaginable, whether it’s media or music, sports, commerce or sustainability.

Afstudeerrichtingen/masters

After graduating, you can continue your education with a master’s degree or professional certification. Applied Mathematics graduates have successfully finished master programmes all over the world, including programmes on Networking, Software Engineering, Game Development, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.

Kansen op de arbeidsmarkt

After graduation, you could work in one of the following positions:

As a Data Scientist… …you design, test and perfect predictive models that turn data from raw to applicable in whatever field you work in. It combines your pure mathematical and IT skills evenly and gives you the expertise to create tools to influence a company’s decisions. This can be in the fields of tech, AI, deep or machine learning, but also within any sector that inspires you, like media, healthcare, gaming, music, finance and logistics.

As a Software Engineer… …you will lean a bit more towards IT by developing and maintaining apps, data systems, or any other type of software you specialise in. This programme gives you the education you’ll need to be a professional back-end or data-driven programmer, and provides optional tracks that enable other careers in IT. You can do this in a company, but also as a private consultant or to grow your own business.

As a Data Analyst… …you will use statistical models created by data scientists, to find patterns in data and make predictions. Ethics is a key skill in this line of work. You will be collecting, combining and interpreting data that can change the course of a company or cause. Within data analytics, you can specialise as well, for example, to become a business, finance, logistics or risk assessment analyst.

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