University of Brighton • Brighton
The analytics-first data master’s — business-facing data skills on the south coast, an hour from London’s hiring market.
Our take
Brighton names its course precisely: Data Analytics, not Data Science — and the difference matters when you choose. Analytics weights the business-facing half of the field: interpreting data, building dashboards and reports, driving decisions — the skill set behind the UK’s highest-volume data job title, data analyst. Deep machine-learning engineering matters less here than communication and commercial judgement, which suits graduates from business, economics and social sciences as much as technical fields. The band runs £15,960–£21,114 on the south coast, with London’s analyst-hiring market an hour away and Brighton’s own digital cluster supplying projects and part-time work.
| Duration | 1 year full-time |
| Intake | September & January |
| Accreditation | University of Brighton — School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering |
| Tuition | Within Brighton’s 2026/27 international postgraduate band of £15,960–£21,114; exact fee confirmed in your offer. The £5,000 deposit is deducted from tuition. |
Where this leads: A master’s-level technology qualification — no professional registration involved. Analyst roles are the UK’s highest-volume data hiring and frequently sponsored.
January availability varies by cohort — confirm for your year.
Why Brighton
Data analyst is the UK’s most-hired data title — this course optimises for it rather than for research-grade machine learning.
The analytics framing lowers the technical entry bar — commerce, economics and social-science graduates convert well here.
The capital’s analyst market is commutable for interviews and, later, the Graduate-visa job itself.
Brighton’s digital-creative cluster runs on exactly the audience and marketing data the course teaches you to interpret.
What you study
Entry requirements
English language
Brighton can consider Medium of Instruction (MOI) evidence for some courses — though clinical and regulated programmes usually still require a formal test. Brighton publishes that it accepts MOI letters from certain institutions in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh — the accepted list is held by the admissions team, so we check your university before you book a test. School-level English also counts in some markets: CBSE/CISCE Standard XII English at 65% or above is accepted from India, and WAEC English at grades A1–C6 from Nigeria. Pakistani and Emirati school English qualifications are not accepted, so most applicants from those markets sit IELTS or an approved alternative.
Also accepted: PTE Academic, TOEFL iBT, Duolingo English Test, Oxford ELLT, Trinity ISE, LanguageCert Academic, Cambridge C1 Advanced / C2 Proficiency, WAEC English A1–C6 (Nigeria), CBSE/CISCE Standard XII English 65%+ (India). Pre-sessional English is available if you fall short.
Careers
Your country
HSSC (Standard XII) holders typically complete an international foundation year before the bachelor’s degree; a two-year BA/BSc or Associate Degree can also be considered for undergraduate entry. For master’s courses Brighton asks for a four-year bachelor’s degree with a GPA of 2.5 or around 55%, subject to assessment. Pakistani school English qualifications are not accepted, but Brighton does consider MOI letters from certain Pakistani institutions — ask us to check yours before booking IELTS.
Full guide for PakistanUndergraduate entry usually needs a Higher Secondary School Certificate / Standard XII average of around 60–65%, including at least five subjects at 40% or above. Master’s applicants typically need a three-year bachelor’s degree from a recognised university at 55% or above. English is where Brighton is genuinely flexible for Indian students: 65% in Standard XII English from CBSE or CISCE is accepted in place of IELTS, and MOI letters from certain institutions are also considered.
Full guide for IndiaWASSCE holders usually take an international foundation year first, though a National Diploma or OND at Merit/Lower Credit (around GPA 2.5) can allow direct Year 1 entry, and a relevant HND may earn advanced entry to Year 2. Master’s applicants typically need a bachelor’s degree at Second Class Lower or above from a recognised university. Helpfully, WAEC English at grades A1–C6 is accepted in place of IELTS, which saves most Nigerian applicants a test fee.
Full guide for NigeriaTawjihiyya (secondary school certificate) holders complete an international foundation year — the University of Brighton International College runs pathway programmes — before starting the bachelor’s degree. Master’s applicants from recognised Emirati universities typically need a GPA of 2.5/4.0 (C+ or roughly 75–79%). Emirati school English qualifications are not accepted, so plan for IELTS or PTE Academic; Indian-curriculum students in the UAE with CBSE/CISCE Standard XII English at 65% can usually use that instead.
Full guide for the UAEFAQ
Choose analytics if your goal is the analyst/BI job family — interpreting data and driving decisions — and data science if you want model-building and engineering depth. Analytics has the higher hiring volume and the lower technical entry bar; science has the higher ceiling. We map your background to the honest fit.
Yes — that is a strength of the analytics framing. Business, economics and social-science graduates with quantitative comfort convert well, and the toolkit (SQL, visualisation, statistics) is taught from foundations.
Fees sit in the £15,960–£21,114 band for 2026/27, confirmed in your offer, with the £5,000 deposit deducted. Weigh Brighton’s rents — the South’s highest outside London — in the full-year budget.
Analyst and BI roles split between Brighton’s digital cluster and London, an hour away. Analyst titles dominate UK data hiring by volume, and sponsorship into Skilled Worker roles is common across the family.
Fees, entry requirements, English-language policies and intake dates are correct to the best of our knowledge at the date shown, but universities review them every cycle and immigration rules change. Always treat figures as a guide — we confirm the exact, current requirements with the university before you apply. Facts on this page last checked July 2026.
Intakes shown are for this course specifically; Brighton runs other intakes for other programmes — see the full Brighton profile.
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