An Integrated PhD provides a route into research study if you do not have a Masters degree, or have very little research training. It enables you to spend your first year completing a Masters-level qualification, followed by a full-time PhD studied over three to four years. We also offer a ‘standard' PhD in this subject which can be studied either full-time (three to four years) or part-time (six to seven years). The techniques we use to model and manipulate data guide the political, financial and social decisions that shape our modern society and are the basis of growth of the economy and success of businesses. Technology is growing and evolving at an incredible speed, and both the rate of growth of data we generate and the devices we use to process it can only increase. Data science is a growing and important field of study with a fast-growing number of jobs and opportunities within the private and public sector. The application of theory and methods to real-world problems and applications is at the core of data science, which aims especially to use and to exploit big data. If you are interested in solving real-world problems, you like to develop skills to use smart devices efficiently, you want to use and to foster your understanding of mathematics, and you are interested and keen to use statistical techniques and methods to interpret data, then the first year of our Integrated PhD Data Science may be for you. In your second year you move onto the PhD element of the course. We have staff members available to act as supervisors across a number of areas within data science, such as: artificial intelligence classification/supervised learning clustering/unsupervised learning data science education deep learning industry 4.0 information retrieval mathematical foundations of data science multidimensional scaling optimisation statistical learning The University of Essex is a leading institution worldwide on Data Science Education. Our School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science has a strong track record on Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) with data-driven industries, including: Profusion, Mondaq, MSXI and Ocado. We have two research groups: Data Science and Mathematics. All Essex research students have access to our innovative and unique scheme, Proficio. Postgraduate research students are automatically enrolled on Proficio, which provides a variety of training courses and a fund of up to £2,500 per student for conference attendance and relevant external training courses.