Machine Learning The University of Manchester

Overview

As you depart this Machine Learning programme offered at The University of Manchester as a well-trained postgraduate, you will find you have a widely applicable skillset – providing you with both the gift of choice and in a workplace where there is strong demand for machine learning skills. 

The aim of the Machine Learning MSc programme is to enable graduate computer scientists to deepen their knowledge in one or a few specialisms. Specifically, the programme aims to:

• Enable graduate computer scientists to deepen their knowledge in machine learning (ML), so that they can identify methods that are appropriate to a particular application, select and explain suitable techniques, and build solutions with good understanding of their potential limitations

• Provide students with the opportunity to specialise in a variety of ML topics that provide a combination of skills that together address distinctive requirements.

• Enhance students’ ability to communicate complex technical results, through submissions on laboratory work in course units.

• Provide students with the opportunity to develop, apply and evaluate advanced ML techniques through an individual project. (MSc only)

• Meet the needs of universities, industry, and other employers by supplying graduates with an ability to devise, apply, compare and evaluate advanced ML techniques.

Career opportunities

With breakthrough after breakthrough, it’s rare to find a field which develops life-altering solutions at such a rapid rate. A core pillar of artificial intelligence, machine learning is responsible for innovations in technology, medicine, business and beyond every year.

Equipped with the in-demand understanding nurtured on this course, you will graduate with a myriad of career opportunities in AI, data, and business analysis in particular. With your finely tuned knowledge, in combination with the reputation our courses have for being among the best in the country, as a postgraduate of this course your skillset will be in-demand. Which sector will you choose? How will you apply your skills to better, or further, an industry?

Examples of some of the careers you could pursue include:

• Business Analyst

• Data Scientist

• Data Analyst

• Machine Learning Engineer