Data Science and Business Analytics

About this programme

The online BSc Data Science and Business Analytics programme prepares you to solve interdisciplinary problems and make strategic, clearly reasoned decisions using data. In addition to building core quantitative skills, you’ll examine the techniques, methodologies and principles that underpin modern data applications in management, economics and related disciplines. The BSc Data Science and Business Analytics programme – with academic direction from faculty at the globally ranked 1 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – is a rigorous and rewarding programme suited to those with strong mathematical ability and an interest in quantitative analysis. As you develop your quantitative skills, you will also learn how to take an analytical, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving in a variety of contexts. Build a quantitative foundation. Your introductory courses in subjects like mathematics, statistics and economics will familiarise you with the quantitative, methodological and theoretical foundations of data science. Cultivate applied skills. Your intermediate courses will focus on practical competencies such as abstract mathematics, applied modelling and prediction, statistical inference and theory, and programming. Explore high-level competencies. Your advanced courses will give you the opportunity to explore specialised interests, topics in management and other intersecting social science disciplines, and statistical machine learning techniques. The final application deadline for the 1 February 2027 cohort is 27 November 2026.