M.Sc. in Big Data Analytics

• Mandatory internship in the fourth semester comprising of 20 weeks intensive hands-on work in the industry

• Dedicated lab

• Live session and guest lectures from TCS

• summer internship after semester 2

• Faculty expertise exposure to the students which covers areas ofEconomics, Statistics, Mathematics, rational thinking and InformationTechnology

• Practical based approach

• The M.Sc. with Big Data Analytics programme is a full-time Master’s degree programme consisting of four semesters over two years. 

• The course will teach the following modules across the four semesters.

Semester I

PSBDA6001CR1    - Linear Algebra & Linear Programming

PSBDA6002CR1    - Probability & Stochastic Process

PSBDA6003CR1    - Data Base Management -Relational

PSBDA6004CR1    - Basics of Programming

PSBDA6501EL1    - Computing for data science

PSBDA6502EL2    - Data Structures

PSBDA6504RP1    - Research Methodology and Statistical Methods

Semester II

PSBDA6005CR1   - Foundations of Data Science

PSBDA6006CR1   - Advanced Statistical Methods

PSBDA6007CR1   - Machine Learning-I

PSBDA6008CR1   - Enabling Technologies-1 

PSBDA6003EL1    - Cloud computing

PSBDA6004EL2    - Operation Research

PSBDA6001OJ1     - Value Thinking 

Semester III

PSBDA7001CR1    - Enabling Technologies-II

PSBDA7002CR1    - Machine Learning 2 including Deep Learning

PSBDA7003CR1    - Introduction to Econometrics and Finance and Data Visualization     

PSBDA6501EL1    - Bioinformatics

PSBDA6502EL2    - Time series Analysis

PSBDA6501RP2    - Research Project

Semester IV

Internship Based Project: - A live project has to be undertaken at an industry for 16 weeks. Each student will have two supervisors: one from academic institution and one from the industry. The project shall involve handling data extensively and use of methodologies learnt during the course work to derive meaningful inferences. A final project report has to be submitted and an “open” presentation has to be made.

St. Xavier’s College is a Catholic Minority College, administered under the Provisions of the Indian Constitution, to promote the welfare of the minority community and to extend its services to all other communities in India, so as to contribute to the harmony and integration of Indian society. 50% of seats are reserved for Catholic minority students.

As per the Judgement dated 12th October 2017 of the Honourable Bombay High Court vide Writ Petition No.1726 of 2001, Minority Colleges do not need to set aside seats for Backward Classes. This was reiterated by the University of Mumbai Circular (No.Aff. / Recog.I / Admission (2018-19) / 10 / of 2018) dated 30th May, 2018.

Accordingly, the allocation of seats is as follows:

Category - Percentage of seats reserved - Number of seats 

Management Quota - 15% - 5 out of 30

Christian Minority - 50% - 12 out of 25 

General - 42% - 11 out of 25 

Persons with disability - 5% - 1 out of 25 

Special** - 3% - 1 out of 25 

** The Special category is for the wards of transferred State / Central Government and Private Sector employees, Defence Personnel, Ex-Servicemen, Freedom Fighters; for students who have met with an accident and also for award winners at the District / State / National Level in Sports or Cultural activities.

Admissions for this course will follow the relevant Government and University Directives pertaining to Minority Colleges, and the extant practices of the Autonomous College.

Candidates applying in the Special category have to first select the General category and then select the appropriate special category they wish to apply to.

Candidates applying under the Christian minority have the option of applying for the Student with Disability category provided they upload the supporting documentation.

The Instructors for this course comprise of in-house Professors from department of  Information Technology, Statistics, Mathematics, English and Biotechnology, along with visiting faculty from reputed colleges of Mumbai. Data Scientists from industry also conduct lectures for the students. To add further value to the course, there are key sessions organized by TCS.