Data for a better life

Enhancing Our Digital Life
Our digital lives produce data; our digital lives depend on data. `

Data is the digital gold of the 21st century. 

Its collection, storage, sharing, structuring, analysis, exploitation and representation are the conditions for a greater understanding of life, a healthier society and improved outcomes for our planet.

These outcomes turn out to be complex tasks because they require a mastery of not only highly specialized mathematical and computer skills, but also needing to call on different types of knowledge, methods and design tools, in order to put them at the service of each and every one of us.

It is the goal of the International Bachelor's Degree "Data Science by Design" to give you this double mastery.

 

From Data to Meaning

Data is everywhere

Data Science applies to many fields such as social networks, health, education, mobility, smart cities, urban planning, manufacturing, food & agriculture, finance and physics.

Problems and opportunities are everywhere, and they need to be both identified and resolved.

Data is complex

Becoming a Data Scientist and being able to unleash the power of data requires a broad investment in major areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistics and Programming. Data Scientists also need to be thinking of how to integrate cutting edge technologies, including Quantum Computing.

From Meaning to Experience

Data is meaningless if it is not used for the benefit of our lives, in either optimal or difficult situations, in a hospital or at school, at a concert or at work, in our intelligent cars or in public spaces.

This is where we need to apply the Design Methodology to identify problems, observe the situations, imagine all the potential solutions, and shape and deliver a reasonable outcome.

This is what makes our Bachelor’s Program unique: the mix between Sciences and Design. Design applies to strategies, organizations, systems, services, interfaces and objects. Human centered design application provides the critical thinking skills that contribute to the creation of successful life experiences.

A project driven pedagogy

In our Bachelor’s program, students are always learning by doing, where Projects play a central role. Our projects motivate and give meaning to fundamental scientific learning and create the conditions for strong and creative participation. The connection between concepts and life is the condition for growing as a professional and as a human being. This is further strengthened by having all students learn fundamental concepts, then apply these concepts in projects and internships. Thanks to this experience our students understand the connectedness for additional learning opportunities.  This is a kind of monitoring loop that gives our program its uniqueness.

An international experience

The world is the playground of data scientists, because data science knows no borders.

To prepare you for this international reality, you will have the possibility to start your program in France for 2 years, and continue during your third academic year while studying abroad in a European or a non-European partner university, which will, without any doubt, enhance your intercultural and linguistic skills.

Program

	1stsem.	2nd sem.	3rd sem.	4thsem.	5thsem.	6thsem.	7thsem.	8th sem.
Mathematics
Analysis	x	X	x	x
Basic Tools in Mathematics	x
Algebra		X	x
Probability	x	X
Statistics				x	x
Physics
Electricity	x
Mechanics		X
Electromagnetism				x
Introduction to Information Theory					x
Computer Science
Algorithmics	x
Programming		X	x	x
Data Base			x				x
Dynamic Web Programming			x
Operating Systems				x
Computer Network				x
Logic Programming					x
Mobile Programming					x
Cloud Computing							x
Language Theory							x
Distributed and Parallel Processing							x
Complexity, Decidability, Graph Theory							x
Constraint Programming and Optimization							x
Economics
Microeconomics	x
Macroeconomics		x
Accounting	x
Finance		x		x
Project Management			x
Time series					x
Game Theory								x
Humanities
Sociology	x
Ethnology		x
Anthropology			x
Semiology				x
Digital Sociology					x
Ecology						x
Data Science
Machine Learning/Deep Learning					x
Fundamentals of Data Mining					x
Text Mining					x
Social Network Analysis					x
Data and Critical Thinking						x
Data Mining						x
Artificial Intelligence						x
Data Integration							x
Business Intelligence							x
Web Semantics							x
SpatioTemporal Data							x
Data Governance								x
Data Integration								x
Big Data								x
Projects	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
French as a Foreign Language	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Representation and Visualization
2D- Adobe	x
UX/UI			x
3D-Unity			x
Graphic Facilitation					x
4D- Adobe Premiere					x
Internship Period		4 weeks		8 weeks		16 weeks		16 weeks

 

Starts in September Mode of Study: full time Duration: 4 academic years ECTS: 240 Teaching Language: English

Admission criteria

• Strong academic skills in high school, especially in Mathematics and Science. SAT 550-600, A-level ABB with A in mathematics French Baccalauréat; grade“TB/B”, Specialization in Mathematics, Physics, Digital and Computer Science, Science of Engineering
• Secondary Education Diploma enabling access to a university.
• Swiss secondary education “maturité”certificate, European high school certificate, or equivalent.
• English proficiency level CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for languages): B2 preferably proven via an official external exam test score:  TOEIC 800, IELTS 6.0, IBT TOEFL 80.

How to apply

Applicants must send all the required documents to admission_bachelor@cyu.fr and to international@eisti.eu

Selected candidates will take part in an interview (face-to-face, telephone, Skype)

After four years of study, students will obtain the BSc. Hons. Bachelor’s in Data Science by Design from CY Tech Cergy Paris University and a Design Thinking Certification from CY School of Design.

With just one more year of studies, students can obtain the 5-year Engineering diploma from CY Tech Grande Ecole or a Master’s in Data Science.

Tuition fees

The tuition fees for one academic year of the Bachelor’s program are 5.000 € for European students and 10.000 € for non-European students.

50% of the tuition fees will have to be settled for successful candidates in addition to administrative fees.

Testimonial

“My name is Anh Thu, and I am from Vietnam. Since high school, I always had great interest in Mathematics. The idea of being an entrepreneur in the future and the desire of taking some applied mathematics courses drove me to look for a quality Bachelor’s program for my studies, as well as for my future career development. After doing some research, Data science appeared the most suitable choice for me. The program offered by CY Tech suited my expectations: business knowledge, applied mathematics, some relevant computer courses, and design, are all incorporated in this program. I enrolled in the Bachelor’s Program in September 2019, and I must say, I am very satisfied with the program’scontent, delivered by a well-prepared faculty, and in a learning environment that is well equipped on campus”. 

Example of a project

When someone writes a sentence, NLP algorithms decompose the sentence to highlight the grammatical points, as if there were an incorrect pronoun in the sentence. The target language is either French or English. Students set up an app that automatically creates exercises where the learners must identify parts of speech within the sentence structure