Data Analytics Boot Camp

How to apply

In order to enrol on the programme:

• You must be over 18 years of age.
• You must have a GCSE grade A-C or 9-4 in Maths.
• You must meet the English Language proficiency requirements outlined below.
• You must have passed the admissions interview, skills test and academic interview.

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Scholarships

For 2021 entry, the University has up to 50 scholarships of £4,000 available.

Women in Tech Scholarship

The Women in Tech Scholarship will be available to students who are:

A female resident from the West Midlands looking to enter or progress within employment in the digital sector - Learners must have a passion for technology and commitment to a career in the tech industry.

Access Scholarship

For groups underrepresented in the tech industry. The scheme provides support for:

- unemployed people into digital employment

- those in employment looking to re-train (working in low paid, insecure employment to retrain to move into digital employment)

- low-waged residents to enable them to enter new digital occupations and careers (household income is below the national average - below £42,875)

Scholarship information

Over the course of 24 weeks, you’ll attend informative lectures and take part in a variety of individual and team exercises, working independently and in groups, in the classroom and at home. Homework assignments provide an opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and build on it.

What the course provides:

Effective Learner Support

Each class of 25 learners has one instructor and two Teaching Assistants to teach them during class hours.  Additional support is provided through in-person and virtual office hours, 1:1 supplemental tutoring as well as a dedicated #Slack channel where learners can get assistance from instructors, support staff and fellow classmates. A boot camp

Learner Success Manager works individually with each learner to ensure their progression and completion.

Careers Service Curriculum

Throughout each course, learners build a compelling portfolio of works—all reviewed by an instructor with years of professional experience in the field. In addition to being educated on tools, skills, and processes, learners receive access to a Career Director to help prepare learners for employer competitive success after graduation. 

Career support is based on Knowles theory of adult learning and learners have a choice of completing 7 milestones that either prepare them to be employer-ready (the basic compulsory components) or employer-competitive (the components to secure the most competitive roles). 

In addition to personalised job support (soft skills training, CV and profile reviews), learners will graduate with a portfolio of projects on github to share on Demonstration Days with Employers.

Pedagogy

Courses are extremely interactive as this is a crucial methodology for teaching an intensive course to learners with a wide range of backgrounds who wish to gain future employment in a technical subject. Interactivity is achieved through three key pillars – discussion; lab work and critically learner portfolio projects. The latter are a crucial means whereby learners acquire skills but also demonstrate their future employability. Courses are designed for interactive teaching.  No instruction goes longer than 15 minutes without an exercise and activity.

Skills/Technologies covered

During the course you will gain skills and knowledge of the following:

You will receive:

A Certificate of Completion from University of Birmingham, showcasing your accomplishments to future employers

Use your boot camp certificate as evidence of your specialised skills and progress further in your career.

Career services

You will have access to career services that will help you prepare for technical roles after graduation such as: Career content and practice sessions; Online career events with industry professionals; Soft skills training; One-on-one career coaching

Project demo day

As a graduate you will benefit from a Project Demo Day—a quarterly networking event with local professionals to showcase your final project.

Portfolio

A robust portfolio of projects to demonstrate your working knowledge of web development.

100% of University of Birmingham Boot Camp learners seeking new roles found employment in relevant within 3 months. This employment ranged from global organisations like Capgemini to local start-ups.

Employability

We believe that the combination of our reverse-engineered curriculum - tailored to meet local tech skills shortages - coupled with our extensive Career Services offering means that our students are better equipped for employment than their counterparts from other training providers.

Our course participants will be qualified for many different roles, including:

• Junior Data Analyst
• Data Analyst
• Data Visualisation Analyst
• Reporting Analyst
• Data Reporting Analyst
• Intelligence Analyst
• Performance Analyst
• Business Intelligence Analyst