MSc Data Management and Analysis

MSc Data Management and Analysis

MSc Data Management and Analysis

CDAMAA and Department of Data Science and Economic Policy offers a one-year full time or two-year part time Master’s degree in Data Management and Analysis. The main objective of MSc. Data Management and Analysis is to equip working professionals with the skills needed for effective data curation, management and analysis to inform policy formulation and research. All courses to be taken in this programme are mainly geared towards practical application with real-life data. 

 

Structure of the Programme 

The MSc. Data Management and Analysis programme comprises 12 compulsory courses and a Capstone project. The programme runs over a period of 12 months if undertaken full time and 24 months if undertaken part-time. The programme comprises of 18 credits per week for each semester. 

Semester I

Semester II

Code

Title

Code

Title

DMA803

Data Literacy and Mining

DMA 804

Qualitative Data Analysis

DMA805

Survey and Census Methodology

DMA 806

Social Network Analysis

DMA807

Ethics and Disclosure in Research

DMA 818

Machine Learning 

DMA808

Applied Econometrics

DMA 816

Time Series Analysis

DMA817

Database Management

DMA 820

Data Curation and Management

DMA819

Research Methods

DMA 821

Cross Sectional and Panel Data Analysis 

DMA898

Capstone Project

 

Admission Requirements 

A Bachelor’s Degree in any field of study from an accredited institution with a minimum of Second Class Lower. Individuals with degrees rated as pass or third class must provide proof of three years working experience in a related field. 

 

Admission

Interested applicants have to purchase admission scratch card (Regular Graduate Forms for the Full Time or Sandwich for the Part Time Programme) from any of the following Places 

  1. Zenith Bank (All Branches)

  2. GCB Bank (All Branches)

  3. Prudential Bank (All Branches)

  4. Agricultural Development Bank (All Branches)

  5. UCC Cash of Office 

  6. UCC Accra Office Tesano 

  7. All Regional offices of the College of Distance Education, UCC.

The cost of the forms is about GH¢325 for Ghanaians and US$300 for Non-Ghanaians. Admissions for the full-time programme is usually done before August of each year and academic work starts in August and ends in May the following year. Admission for the Sandwich Programme (the Part-time) is usually done before May of each year and then the academic work starts in June and end in August of each year (Sandwich Semester). 

 

For further enquiries send email to c-damaa@ucc.edu.gh