Overview

The Data Science and Information Technology course from TUniversity of California, Berkeley aims at bringing technological solutions to worldwide scientific frontiers and strategic emerging industries regarding information, energy, and health, in order to tackle the international scientific and societal challenges as well as cultivate leading scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs with interdisciplinary knowledge and international perspectives.

Key facts:

Data science and information technology programme inherits the academic excellence of Tsinghua University and integrates the borderless pedagogy of top universities in the world, which is backed by excellent faculty members and state-of-the-art experimental facilities. Faculty members associated with the programme have international academic backgrounds, interdisciplinary research foundations, and collaboration opportunities with the industry.

The research directions are disruptive, forward-looking, innovative, and interdisciplinary, covering emerging topics such as artificial intelligence, operations research & statistics, management science, computational imaging, smart grids, robotics, Internet-of-Things, nanodevices, photonics, bionics, flexible electronics, MEMS, smart materials, and AI-for-Science (for specific research areas, please refer to the faculty members' websites). Students and alumni of this programme have received numerous domestic and international awards, with fruitful publications in prestigious academic journals (for example, Nature) and CCF-A conferences (for example, CVPR).

Programme Structure

Courses include:

AI
Big Data
Sensors and Microsystems
Nanodevices
IoT and Socio-Physical Information Systems
Future Internet
Computational Imaging and Display
Operations Research and Logistics

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-15 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-31 00:00:00
Starting 2027-02-25 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Shenzhen, China

Disciplines

Information Technology (IT) Data Science & Big Data

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Personal statement.
Degree certificate and degree authentication.
Academic transcript.
Language Proficiency Test score report.
Two academic recommendation letters.
Passport (Personal ordinary-type passport): Passport bio page.
Other unfinished matters in this guide are implemented inaccordance with ‘Admission to Graduate Programmes ofTsinghua University (For International Students)’

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Tuition Fees

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International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

40000 CNY / year

≈ 40000 CNY / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

40000 CNY / year

≈ 40000 CNY / year

Living costs

Shenzhen

China

4733 - 7653 CNY / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

Work Permits

International students in China are generally not permitted to work while studying. Limited exceptions may apply with special approval from your university and authorities. Always confirm the current rules locally.

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