BSc (Hons) Graduate Apprenticeship AI and Data Science

Overview

Gain skills for a career using data science and artificial intelligence to find solutions to real-world problems

The ability to draw insight and make decisions from data is critical to healthcare providers, government organisations, social media companies, the financial and education sectors, and the entertainment industry, among others.

The BSc (Hons) AI and Data Science (Graduate Apprenticeship) will equip you with the knowledge and skills required to develop a career that uses societally beneficial data science and artificial intelligence solutions to real-world problems like climate change, financial services, or sustainable development.

Informed by both academic research and industrial interaction feedback, this course will help you to learn how to manage, explore, analyse, understand and visualise image, text, or numerical data and apply these skills to challenges in areas such as autonomous vehicles, financial decision making, health diagnosis, or robotics.

As well as technical skills such as software development and machine learning, you will also develop the creative thinking skills required for a career developing novel solutions to the key societal and environmental challenges affecting the world today.

The Graduate Apprenticeship pathway also has an extended focus on data analysis, probability and statistics, maths for data science and data protection and ethics. All skills that you can immediately apply to your role in industry as you broaden your knowledge and experience.

Regular events are also organised with previous students and industrial experts to broaden your awareness of industry knowledge and expertise

Who should apply?

This course is for employees working in, or working towards, one of these career paths:

Data Scientist
Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning Scientist
Applications Architect
Data Architect
Infrastructure Architect
Data Engineer
Data Analyst
Software Developer
Cloud Engineer

You must be resident in Scotland and working in a role commensurate to the discipline being studied, with employer support to undertake the programme.

From a human capital and talent management perspective, Graduate Apprenticeships enable employers to increase their skills pipeline within the business. An employer may either upskill current employees and or recruit new talent into the business and support them through this degree course.

What you
will study

Course
Information

Award	Mode of study	Duration	Start date	Location
BSc (Hons)	Blended learning	4 Years	Sep 25	Glasgow	Enquire Apply

All entry requirements listed here should be used as a guide. Applicants who are made a conditional offer of a place may be asked to achieve more than is stated.

Standard entry requirements

For new employees applying directly from school:

All applicants must be working in full-time employment in a role commensurate to the programme of study. Applicants should also have the support of their employer.

UCAS Tariff: 96

Scottish Higher: BBCC or equivalent incl Higher in Maths or Computing

Foundation Apprenticeships

We accept selected Foundation Apprenticeships, in combination with SQA Highers, for entry to our degree programmes. Your Foundation Apprenticeship will take the place of one SQA Higher qualification for our standard entry requirements and will be treated as equivalent to a B grade at Higher.

Modern Apprenticeships

If you have completed a Modern Apprenticeship at SCQF level 6 in a relevant discipline this would be equivalent to two Highers at B.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

For applicants with prior work experience and professional qualifications, there is a possibility to be considered through the university’s flexible entry system through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

This process allows prospective graduate apprentices to claim credit(s) against previously assessed and certificated learning, including informal learning, to be considered and recognised for academic purposes and credit within their course.

Advanced entry may also be granted through RPL. Skills, knowledge, academic qualifications and experience will all be used to inform which year of the degree you will enter into.

Additional requirements

Candidates must be employed in the same field as the course of study and must supply a supporting letter from their employer as part of the admissions process.

You must be living and working in Scotland in the same field as the Graduate Apprenticeship course you are applying to.

Assessment methods

A Graduate Apprenticeship is a work based degree course, where learning is applied and assessed in the workplace. You will be responsible for your own learning and assessment but supported by workplace mentors.

The course is delivered via blended learning, (online and face to face). All reading material, tutor discussions, assignment setting, marking and feedback, timelines and key dates are located online in the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), GCU Learn. You will also have access to the University’s award-winning library.

In the final year of the course, you will work with your mentor and employer to identify a suitable work based project which will form part of the assessment for honours level study.

Why GCU?

This Graduate Apprenticeship provides a career-orientated learning experience from a British Computing Society approved school.

Work based learning

Graduate Apprenticeships are co-designed by GCU and industry partners. GCU invites a diverse range of guest lecturers - dependent on relevant subject areas, current industry news and course needs - to share their expertise in every subject area.

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