Thursday, October 5, 2023

Becoming a Data Scientist at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)

All the flagship Master's programs at ISI are essentially designed to be research oriented. Due to hiring spree in data science, these programs are very popular amongst the recruiters. You can easily get hired for a data science job, if you pursue these from ISI.


They are:

- Master of Statistics (M.Stat)
- Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (MSQE)
- Master of Mathematics (M.Math)
- M.Tech in Computer Science


There are other programs at ISI, which are more data science oriented. Let’s now discuss those programs as well.

- PGDBA (Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics)
PGDBA is the ideal competitor for IISc’s master’s program of management in business analytics. And in some way, it is much better than the IISc’s mgmt. program, because of the advantage that PGDBA has of three institutions, ISI, IIT and IIM. You will never get the advantage of ISI, IIT, and IIM in any other program as of now.

- MSQMS (Master of Science in Quality Management Science)
It is the two-year full time residential Post Graduate program offered jointly by ISI Bengaluru and ISI Hyderabad. The last semester is devoted solely for industrial internship. The course positions itself as a course which is meant to create data scientists. The placement is also very similar to other post graduate courses at ISI.

- M.Tech QROR
It is a very popular course of ISI Kolkata and specifically among engineers. This course is essentially about Statistical Quality Control, Reliability and Operations Research. If you want to know more about these terms, before data science was an established career, people in finance or people in operations research, were already doing data science. Hence, you can be sure that this course is also equally good, if you want to get into data science jobs. The internships or the final placements are pretty similar to what is offered to other ISI graduates.

- M.Tech in Blockchain and Crypto
ISI has recently started a two-year master’s program which is formally known as M.Tech in Cryptology and Security. If you go through the placement data, you will understand that as the flavour of ISI is in data science, most of the roles which are offered to M. Tech CrS students, are data science roles and that is going to change with the industry awareness for sure.

- PGDSMA
Post Graduate Diploma in Statistical Methods and Analytics is a one-year diploma course run by ISI North East Centre in Tezpur and ISI Chennai. This course is primarily designed to cater to jobs which has application of statistics and data analytics as their requirements. Placements are quite good, but not like the other master’s program of ISI, because PGDSMA is a 1 year post graduate diploma. 




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