The course of studies aims to produce professionals with the skills to analyse and manage data supporting strategic decision-making and fill both executive and coordination IT roles in firms. It will provide statistical and IT knowledge and skills needed for data analysis, management and modelling, to be applied in industrial and service organisations, public or private. Given the complexity of the work environment and the systematic processes of evolution and adaptation in each organisational context, students will also have access to key managerial knowledge and change management skills.

In order to contribute to the training of professionals with an innovative mindset, the course of studies offers some very specific and important characteristics:

• Integration of different disciplinary skills in the areas of statistics, IT and management.
• Systematic interpretation of basic skills as applied to manufacturing and service organisations in particular.
• Faculty supported by lectures from leading industry experts, in order to keep applied skills fresh and ideas flowing between the university and the local region.