Postgraduate Certificate in Operations Research and Analytics

The speed of technological change has created an increasing range of applications for Operations Research and Analytics. The Postgraduate Certificate in Operations Research and Analytics provides students with a taste of the field, and supplements their undergraduate backgrounds with theoretical fundamentals. Core topics such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, operations research, and time series analytics are covered, so the PGCertOran additionally provides students with a direct pathway to further study in the research-based Master of Operations Research and Analytics.

The PGCertORAn is a 60-point taught programme. You'll have to complete the following courses.

At least two of the following:

• ENGSCI760 Algorithms for Optimisation
• ENGSCI761 Integer and Multi-objective Optimisation
• ENGSCI762 Scheduling and Optimisation in Decision Making
• ENGSCI763 Advanced Simulation and Stochastic Optimisation
• ENGSCI765 Studies in Operations Research I
• ENGSCI768 Advanced Operations Research and Analytics
• STATS720 Stochastic Processes
• STATS723 Stochastic Methods in Finance
• STATS724 Operations Research
• STATS783 Simulation and Monte Carlo Methods

Up to two of the following:

• COMPSCI753 Uncertainty in Data
• COMPSCI760 Machine Learning and Data Mining
• COMPSCI761/367 Artificial Intelligence
• COMSCI762 Advanced Machine Learning
• ENGSCI712 Computational Algorithms for Signal Processing
• ENGSCI755 Decision Making in Engineering
• OPSMGT766 Fundamentals of Supply Chain Coordination
• SOFTENG753 Probabilistic Machine Learning
• STATS726 Time Series
• STATS731 Bayesian Inference
• STATS763 Advanced Regression Methodology
• STATS769 Data Science Practice