Online MSc Bioinformatics
University of Birmingham Online
Key Information
Campus location
UK Online, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
30 months
Pace
Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 17,030 / per year
Application deadline
Request info
Earliest start date
Jun 2024
Join us on November 9th for University of Birmingham’s online MSc Bioinformatics webinar
led by Dr. Anas Rana & Dr. Archana Sharma-Oates.
Introduction
There are multiple intakes a year. Students can join the program in January, February, June, August, and October.
Online MSc Bioinformatics
Drive discoveries for today’s data-driven health and life science industries and academic institutions by learning how to extract meaningful information from complex data sets at one of the top universities for biological and computer science.
The University of Birmingham’s Online MSc Bioinformatics is well-suited for professionals from biological and computer science or mathematics backgrounds, supporting careers in biostatistics, pharmaceutical science, and medical data analytics. This degree is also suitable for those who want to pursue Ph.D. studies or conduct research for pharmaceutical corporations, governmental agencies, and medical journals and publications.
Embrace data-driven bioscience
Led by active researchers in bioinformatics and linked to institutions such as University Hospitals Birmingham, the Online MSc Bioinformatics curriculum is grounded in the real world. This helps you develop the practical skills you need to further your career in this cutting-edge field.
To enter the field of bioinformatics, you’ll need to be able to process large-scale raw data and have the scientific curiosity, mindset, and motivation to work on problems relating to biology and medicine. With an internationally recognized degree credential from the University of Birmingham, you’ll build this knowledge to successfully transition into a variety of roles.
Top jobs in bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics analyst
- Bioinformatics scientist/technician
- Bioinformatician
- Pharmaceutical scientist
- Biostatistician
- Data scientist (medical)
- AI architect (medical)
Enhance your real-world experience
This program is founded on real-world experience and is designed to help you build the practical skills you need to advance your career. The intrinsically multidisciplinary Centre for Computational Biology delivers the program, which is well-suited to help biologists and healthcare professionals interested in data analysis, statisticians, and computer scientists apply their skills to health and biology.
The program delivery is combined with hands-on coding exercises, to ensure you leave your studies with both the theory and the practical skills ready for your chosen career. The center is also integrated with the University Hospitals Birmingham, which was a major contributor to the 100,000 Genomes Project, giving your studies both a real-world and career-centered character.
Admissions
Curriculum
The programme’s internationally focused and expertly taught modules offer the flexibility and convenience of an 100% online format. Enjoy eight-week modules that will grow your programming, communication, and modelling skills.
It is a 180-credit full masters programme which takes approximately two and a half years to complete. There are twelve 10-credit taught modules and a 60-credit dissertation. You will take six 10-credit core modules in your first year, followed by six 10-credit core modules in your second year, with each module lasting approximately 8 weeks in total.
- Introduction to biology and programming (10 credits)
- Introduction to probabilities (10 credits)
- Essentials of statistical modelling (10 credits)
- Introduction to genomics and next-generation sequencing (10 credits)
- Applied genomics and next-generation sequencing (10 credits)
- Statistical machine learning (10 credits)
- Health data analytics (10 credits)
- Scientific Communication (10 credits)
- Concepts in metabolomics and advanced (omics) technologies (10 credits)
- Applied metabolomics and advanced (omics) technologies (10 credits)
- Essentials of complex systems (10 credits)
- Computational biology for complex systems (10 credits)
Rankings
World ‘top-100’ institution (QS World University Rankings 2023).
Program Outcome
Enhance your real-world experience
Working with an expert team of professors and lecturers at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Computational Biology, you will understand how to teach, as well as learn with data. Combined with hands-on coding exercises, this ensures you’ll leave your studies with both the theory and the practical skills required for your chosen career. The Centre is also integrated with the University Hospitals Birmingham, which was a major contributor to the 100,000 Genomes Project, giving your studies both a real-world and career-centred character.
Program Tuition Fee
Accreditations
English Language Requirements
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