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PG Program in Data Science (with Specialization in Gen AI)

PG Program in Data Science (with Specialization in Gen AI)

India’s most successful Data Science Bootcamp

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Bootcamp designed to deliver career success

Placement stats (past 90 days)

  • 150 job offers

    Approx. 2 offers per day

  • 1 new hiring process

    Initiated everyday

  • 4451+

    hiring companies

3-4 years after program

  • 17.45 LPA

    Average CTC

  • 550% Hike

    for experienced professional

  • 320% Hike

    for freshers & young professionals

Our alumni work at top companies

Job roles our alumni cracked

  • Analytics consultant
  • Analytics Manager
  • Data analyst
  • data scientist
  • data engineer
  • ML engineer
  • AI engineer
  • reporting analyst
  • research executive
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Journeys of Transformation: Success Stories

Read about our learners inspiring career transitions to Data Science.

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    Aditya Kapur - Learner

    Aditya Kapur

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    Data Science

    Intern - Project Management

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    Applied Analyst - Executive

    Indigo

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    Nivetha Srinivasan

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    Data Science

    ML Data associate I

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    Senior Analyst

    LatentView Analytics

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    Riya Soni

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    Data Science

    Associate Executive

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    Data Scientist

    Collegedunia

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    Karthik Rao - Learner

    Karthik Rao

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    Data Science

    Business Development Executive

    Frontier Business Systems Pvt Ltd, Bangalore

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    Data Analyst

    Flipkart

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    Ayush Kumar Raikwar

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    Data Science

    Fresher

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    Data Analyst

    Meesho

  • Harsh Priyadarshan - Learner

    Harsh Priyadarshan

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    Data Science

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    Analyst

    Hewlett-Packard

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About the Program

Post Graduate Program in Data Science (with Specialization in Gen AI) is offered by Great Lakes Executive Learning in collaboration with Great Learning. It is delivered in a classroom format to help you learn face-to-face from industry experts. You will be part of a diversified batch for an immersive and personalized experience. Its comprehensive curriculum and industry-aligned approach prepare you to face business challenges head-on.
This program can help you position yourself at the forefront of innovation and build the expertise needed to shape its future. With the additional PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Certification Program, you can gain in-demand Power BI skills and get an edge over your peers in the job market.

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Is this course limited to a certain number of students?

Yes, this course has a limited number of seats available per center (Bangalore or Chennai).

Are there any prerequisites or qualifications required for enrollment?

  • 2020 and above passed-out undergraduates
  • 10th/12th - minimum 60%
  • Under graduation B.Tech - 55%
  • Any other undergraduate degree - 60%

Are there opportunities for networking or collaboration with industry professionals?

Yes, students in this course have opportunities to network and collaborate with industry professionals through events, guest lectures, and projects. These interactions offer valuable insights and connections to enhance learning and future career prospects.

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    Tailored guidance from seasoned industry professionals for your career growth

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    Get guidance for your career path with aptitude skill training and development

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    Review your CV and LinkedIn profile with experts to make your portfolio look unique

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    Participate in mock interviews & get guidance from our alumni currently in roles you aspire for

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80% of our alumni transitioned to managerial roles

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Earn a Data Science certificate from Great Lakes

Ranked among India's top 10 business schools, Great Lakes is the country's best for learning analytics. A certificate from Great Lakes Executive Learning ensures industry credibility and acceptance, providing a robust foundation for your career advancement.

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Selection Criteria - PGP DS & GenAI

We maintain a standard of excellence through a rigorous selection process.

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    3-Step Screening Process

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Eligibility

  • 2021 and above passed-out undergraduates
  • Minimum 60% in 10th, 12th, and Graduation.

Selection Process

Our admissions close once the requisite number of participants enroll for the upcoming batch . Apply early to secure your seats.

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    1. Fill online application form

    Submit your educational and professional details with GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT scores(optional) and a min 100 words SOP.

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    2. Shortlist & Entrance test

    All candidates will need to take the GL-DSAT to be eligible. Candidates with GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT scores can skip this.

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    3. Personal Interview

    After completing the GL-DSAT or submitting your GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT score, we'll consider you for an interview. If selected, our admissions team will contact you.

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    4. Merit list & Admission Decision

    Shortlisted students will receive an update on admission after the interview. If accepted, learners must confirm with full payment.

Limited seats available

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Comprehensive Curriculum

The curriculum has been designed by faculty from Great Lakes and highly skilled and deeply knowledgeable. experts of data science.

PRE-WORK: INTRODUCTION TO ANALYTICS

Covers the Data Science lifecycle and helps you master one of the most common tools used by analysts - Excel. 

Topics

  • Journey of a Data Science Project 
  • Introduction to Excel Sheets
  • Data Analysis 
  • Data Visualisation
  • Dashboard Creation and Storytelling

Case Study

Housing Price Case Study: Step into the shoes of a Data Analyst and dive into real housing price data from various US regions. You'll explore the data, uncovering valuable insights and trends that can inform real-world decisions

MODULE 1: DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Covers practical skills needed for effective database management, emphasising real-world applications through a hands-on case study.

Topics

  • Introduction to SQL 
  • Data Integrity 
  • Aggregate Functions in SQL
  • Joins 
  • Subqueries 
  • Windows Functions
  • Views

Case Study

Fantasy Sports Case Study: Analyse players’ historical performance data and identify the top player picks across different positions to help customers maximize their rewards by placing wise bets

MODULE 2: DATA VISUALISATION USING TABLEAU

Covers effective Tableau utilisation to craft compelling data stories with a hands-on case study to reinforce practical applications.

Topics

  • Visual Analytics
  • Interactive Dashboards
  • Data Transformation
  • Storytelling with Data

Case Study

FIFA (Football) Case Study: Calling all data storytellers! Enhance your analytical skills with this exciting case study on football league data. Use the power of Tableau to visualize insights, making your findings both efficient and visually stunning

MODULE 3: PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE

Covers essential Python skills for Data Analysis and Visualisation, culminating in a practical case study application.

Topics

  • Introduction to Python
  • Numpy and Pandas
  • Visualisation (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly)
  • Extrapolatory Data Analysis

Case Study

Zomato Case Study: Combine your love for food with Data Science in this delectable case study. Dive deep into Zomato's restaurant data, using your Python skills to uncover tasty insights and trends in the culinary world

MODULE 4: STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR DATA PROFESSIONALS

Covers hypothesis testing and application of statistical techniques in real-world scenarios through a comprehensive case study.

Topics

  • Introduction to Probability
  • Central Limit Theorem 
  • Normal and Binomial Distributions
  • Hypothesis Testing

Case Study

Obesity Case Study: Tackle one of the major health concerns identified by WHO: obesity. Use your data analysis and statistical skills to explore obesity data, validate hypotheses, and uncover intriguing patterns to inform public health strategies


 

MODULE 5: MACHINE LEARNING ESSENTIALS

Covers building, evaluating and applying Machine Learning models, emphasising practical understanding through case studies.

Topics

  • Regression and Classification
  • Tree-Based Modelling 
  • Model Building and Hyperparameter Tuning 
  • Bagging and Boosting 
  • XGBoost
  • Clustering

Case Study

Tourism Case Study: Use classification techniques to find the probable booking cancellations that can be done by clients pre-visit

MODULE 6: BUILDING A CAPSTONE PROJECT

Involves conducting independent research, collecting data, building a comprehensive model and effectively presenting your findings - consolidating skills acquired throughout the program.

Topics

  • Research 
  • Data Collection
  • Model Building 
  • Presentation (Business Insights)

Case Study

Healthcare Case Study: Perform descriptive analysis to create a customer profile for each CardioGood Fitness treadmill product line

MODULE 7: CLOUD COMPUTING ON AWS

In this module, you will understand the evolution of Cloud Computing and its basics. Dive into the concept of elasticity in the cloud pricing model. Explore the ever-expanding landscape of managed services.

Topics

  • Learn the basic concepts of Cloud Computing
  • Understand service, delivery, and subscription models
  • Review the classical enterprise, cloud cost economics, and service offerings
  • Get introduced to virtualization and its correlation with Cloud Computing
  • Learn about cloud service taxonomy and next-generation virtualization methods

MODULE 8: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

This module will help you get introduced to the world of natural language processing, and gain a practical understanding of text embedding methods, followed by working on different transformer architectures that lie at the core of large language models (LLMs).

Topics

  • NLP Pipeline or Exploratory Data Analysis using Text
  • Overview of Neural Net
  • Word Embeddings

Case Study

Sentiment Analysis using Text

MODULE 9: OVERVIEW OF GENERATIVE AI AND ADVANCED PROMPT ENGINEERING

This module equips you with comprehensive knowledge and skills to leverage Generative AI, focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Prompt Engineering. You will explore various prompting techniques and learn to apply them in real-world scenarios, including classification and generation tasks. The module also delves into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) concepts and their practical applications.

Topics

  • Overview of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) 
  • Deep Dive into Prompt Engineering 
  • Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Case Study

Case Studies using Prompting such as Movie Recommender Systems, Image-to-text, etc.

MICROSOFT POWER BI TRAINING PROGRAM (OPTIONAL-10 WEEKS)

Working with Data in Power BI

Creating Effective Visualizations

DAX Basics & Advanced DAX

Productionizing Power BI reports

Power BI Administration and Security

Exam Preparation Guide + Mock Exams

CAPSTONE PROJECT

You will get your hands dirty with real-time projects under industry experts’ guidance, from Data Science, using Python to Machine Learning, SQL and Tableau. Successful completion of the project will earn you a post-graduate in Data Science and Engineering course.

Learn from Experienced Data Science Faculties

Meet our expert faculty - professionals who are passionate about deep data science knowledge

  • Dr. Abhinanda Sarkar - Faculty Director

    Dr. Abhinanda Sarkar

    Senior Faculty & Director Academics, Great Learning

    Dr. Abhinanda Sarkar has B.Stat. and M.Stat. degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. He was a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a research staff member at IBM. Post this he spent a decade at General Electric (GE). He has provided committee service for the University Grants Commission (UGC) of the Government of India, for infoDev – a World Bank program, and for the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM). He is a recipient of the ISI Alumni Association Medal, an IBM Invention Achievement Award, and the Radhakrishan Mentor Award from GE India. He is a seasoned academician and has taught at Stanford, ISI Delhi, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Bangalore), and the Indian Institute of Science. Currently, he is a Full-Time Faculty at Great Lakes. He is Associate Dean at the MYRA School of Business where he teaches courses such as business analytics, data mining, marketing research, and risk management. He is also co-founder of OmiX Labs – a startup company dedicated to low-cost medical diagnostics and nucleic acid testing.

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  • Vidya Selvaraj - Faculty Director

    Vidya Selvaraj

    Centre Head, Operations

  • Pushkar Shah - Faculty Director

    Pushkar Shah

    Faculty

  • Mukul Kr Singh Chauhan - Faculty Director

    Mukul Kr Singh Chauhan

    General Manager

  • Deepali Gatade - Faculty Director

    Deepali Gatade

    Sr. Data Scientist

INDUSTRY RELEVANT SYLLABUS

Learn top in-demand tools

Dive into data science with our program, mastering vital skills and tools for robust data analysis

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    Python

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    Tableau

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    SQL

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    Pandas

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    NumPy

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    Chat GPT

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    LangChain

DATA SETS FROM THE INDUSTRY

Work on industry-relevant projects every month

Find below an indicative list of hands-on projects during the course of the program

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Healthcare

Predictive model for Diabetes Treatments

A hospital is evaluating the efficiency of Insulin based treatment for diabetes patients. The Objective is to recommend whether solo insulin or conjunction of other drugs/ treatment is more effective at treating diabetes based on analyzing the patient's medical history.
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Retail

Retail Sales prediction

A store has a loyalty program and wants to provide offers on products during the non-sale period on certain categories of interest. Based on the Black day sales data, recommend the top 100 products it must prioritize for loyalty rewards to customers.
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Realty

Realty Predictive modeling on House Value

A house value is simply more than location and square footage. Like the features that make up a person, an educated party would want to know all aspects that give a house its value. For example, you want to sell a house and you don’t know the price which you can take — it can’t be too low or too high. To find the house price you usually try to find similar properties in your neighbourhood and based on gathered data you will try to assess your house price.
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BFSI

Prediction of Loan interest rates

To develop the credit scorecard using a regression model, where the past data of the existing loans & default cases can be used to enable the investor to predict the probability of default for a potential loan to be given to the new loan applications from the borrowers and based on the risk categorization / risk bucketing suggest suitable interest rates to be charged to hedge the risk involved.
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BFSI

Deep dive into exploratory analysis and predictive modeling in financial domain

The objective is to analyse P2P Lending loan transaction data from one of major US market players for over a decade and build a model for identification and recommendation of borrowers/loan for an investor. Overall, you will have the effort in these themes 1. Predict the interest rate of potential lenders 2. Predict the probability of default for a potential loan.
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Sports

IPL Prediction

There has been year on year analysis on money spent by franchises on the teams and their performance over IPL. The objective of this capstone project is to determine the relationship between money involved in a match (i.e. money spent to buy the playing 11 players) and chances of winning.
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Education

Predictive modeling of employability outcomes

Under the project study, you will try to utilize the dataset containing information about a set of engineering graduates and their employment outcomes to analyse the following few use cases – 1. Given a new student profile, predict his/her annual salary from historic data. 2. Predict what factors in the labor market determine one’s salary. Is it just one’s skills or are there other factors that influence the return in the labor market.
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E-commerce/Internet Business

Marketing analytics, predictive modelling on website visitor conversion rates

People often spend a lot of time browsing through online shopping websites, but the conversion rate into purchases is low. Determine the likelihood of purchase based on the given features in the dataset. The dataset consists of feature vectors belonging to 12,330 online sessions. The purpose of this project is to identify user behaviour patterns to effectively understand features that influence the sales.

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Program Details

What is the program structure for PGP in Data Science (with Specialization in Gen AI)?

The PGP in Data Science (Specialization in Gen AI) is a 5-month classroom program designed for comprehensive learning in data science. It includes project assistance, weekly mentorship sessions led by industry experts, and a dedicated program manager to address your queries and ensure a smooth learning experience.

What is the capstone project, and how would it help me?

The capstone project is an opportunity for candidates to work on industry-like data science problems under the mentorship of faculty/industry experts. This project would bring in all the learnings that candidates would have gained in the course and would work on problems relevant to the industry using techniques and tools mastered in the PG Data Science course. The capstone project also becomes a way for candidates to showcase their analytics credentials and learning to their future employers. Click Here - Data Science Benefits.

Who will be the faculty for Data Science Course?

The academic modules would be taught by senior faculty from Great Lakes. In addition to Great Lakes faculty, senior leadership from the industry would also participate in delivering certain topics/modules.

What certificate I will you receive upon completion of this program?

Great Lakes Executive Learning and Microsoft awards PG Data Science and PowerBI Data Analytics certification upon completing the Data Science Engineering and PowerBI Data Analyst training program. 

This Microsoft Power-BI Data Analytics certification serves as an official recognition of the graduate's accomplishment in meeting the comprehensive course requirements and demonstrates their proficiency in the Data Science and Power BI Data Analysis domains.

How will I be evaluated during the Data Science Course?

In the PG Data Science(with Specialization in Gen AI) certificate course, evaluation is conducted through a structured and continuous assessment framework. This rigorous and comprehensive program employs case studies, quizzes, assignments, and project reports to evaluate learners’ progress. These varied assessment tools are carefully designed to evaluate learners' understanding and application of course concepts, ensuring a comprehensive and well-rounded review. Upon successful completion, learners receive a certificate showcasing their proficiency in data science and data analytics.

Would the content be available to me after completion of the course?

We believe that learning should continue, and hence, access to the Learning Management System (Olympus), which houses the learning material, would be available to the candidates up to one year after the completion of the program. Click Here - Download Data Science Course Brochure.

Would I have to spend extra on books, online learning material or license fee?

All the requisite learning material is provided online to candidates through the Olympus - Learning Management System. Candidates are free to purchase any reference books or material as may be recommended by the faculty. Apply Now for Data Science Course Demo.

Will there be placements after the course?

Yes, candidates do receive placement assistance in the PGP Data Science(with Specialization in Gen AI) program. Upon successful completion of the program, candidates would be provided interview opportunities up to 3 months post-completion of the program. We would also prepare candidates for these interviews by providing extensive support in terms of mentoring, CV review, interview preparation, etc.

What would be the average package offered?

Careers in analytics and data science are amongst the highest paid in the industry. Furthermore, the career growth that one can expect in these roles is far superior to other roles. With leading Indian and Global companies looking to ramp up their analytics hiring, this is the best time to build a career in analytics and data science. Salaries for these roles, while being higher than other comparable roles, are subjective and depend on the quality of the candidate and the recruiting company. As per analytics salary studies, average salaries for fresher roles in analytics (0-3 years) in India vary between 3-8 lakhs.

Admission Queries

What is the eligibility criterion for Data Science Course?

The PG Data Science course is open for candidates in their final semester and recent graduates with 0-3 years of experience. Applicants should also have 60% or above in Xth, XIIth, and Bachelors.

What is the admission process?

Our admissions close once the requisite number of participants enroll for the upcoming batch. Apply early to secure your seats. 


1. Fill online application form 

Submit your educational and professional details with GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT scores (optional) and a minimum of 100 words SOP.

 

2. Shortlist & Entrance test 

All candidates will need to take the GL-DSAT to be eligible. Candidates with GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT scores can skip this. 


3. Personal Interview 

After completing the GL-DSAT or submitting your GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT score, we'll consider you for an interview. If selected, our admissions team will contact you. 


4. Merit list & Admission Decision 

Shortlisted students will receive an update on admission after the interview. If accepted, learners must confirm with full payment.

How can I apply for the Data Science Course?

If you are interested in the Program, you can apply through the online application form. Please reach out to us at dse@greatlearning.in or 080 4718 9253 for any program or admission related queries.

Fee Related Queries

What is the Data Science course fee? Is there any financial aid provided?

Please see the program fee structure here. The admissions office will help you apply for loans once you receive the admission offer. We ensure money is not a constraint in the path of learning.

What is the refund policy for the Course?

We advise all candidates to have complete information before enrolling in the program. No refund requests will be accepted once the fee has been paid. However, there is a deferment policy where a candidate can choose to defer his enrollment to a future batch.
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