Would you like to contribute to medical progress in your future career? With the Bachelor’s degree in Medical Data Science, you will be responsible for collecting and analysing medical data, for example from clinical trials. To this end, you will learn the fundamentals of medicine, mathematics, statistics and computer science. By choosing specialisations, you can tailor the content of your Bachelor’s in Medical Data Science to suit your interests and strengths. As a key player in the development of innovative medicines, new vaccines or medical apps and applications, you will help to improve the lives of many people in the long term. The programme is also offered with an in-depth practical component.
Data plays a crucial role in the development of innovative medicines, new vaccines and therapies, as well as medical apps. Through the targeted collection and analysis of medical data, for example in clinical studies, you will make a decisive contribution to medical progress and help to improve people's lives in the long term.
In this Medical Data Science degree program, you will learn the basics of medicine, mathematics/statistics and computer science. Data Science in Medicine is an interdisciplinary degree course with the option of choosing two specializations. You can customize your studies by choosing electives, topics for your project, seminar and bachelor's thesis and the company for your internship semester.
Depending on your interests, you can choose the following specializations:
The Medical Data Science course lasts seven semesters.
You will need a university entrance qualification for your studies, for example the general higher education entrance qualification (Abitur), the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification, the entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences or a comparable qualification. The course suits you if you are passionate about mathematics and computer science, have a good dose of research spirit and enjoy working in a team. Do you also approach problems logically and analytically and are you very interested in medicine? Then you have exactly the right skills. The Medical Data Science degree program is NC-free, which means that no specific grade point average is required for admission.
As a data scientist, you are in high demand on the job market. After completing your Bachelor's degree in Data Science in Medicine, you will receive the academic title Bachelor of Science and a wide range of career opportunities await you. You can work in the pharmaceutical industry, in hospitals, in medical research institutions or in contract research institutes. The general healthcare sector, the medical software industry and health insurance companies also offer exciting fields of work. After successfully completing your studies, the door to a Master's degree is also open, for example in the Intelligent Systems course at THU.
