Master's Degree in Data Science
About the degree
The Data Science Master's Degree of the University of Alicante, as the name implies, is a master's degree that delves deep in Data Science and Machine Learning, refining and expanding skills learned from related undergraduate degrees. The master is only 1-year long, and it taught fully on-site.
On the 2024 to 2025 school year, almost all classes were taught in the Faculty of Science #6, affectionately called The Bunker for its distinctive, harsh concrete facade.
The master's degree delves deep into many Data Science topics, including:
- Math & Statistics
- Data Modeling
- Data Mining & Data Scrapping
- Data Processing and Cleaning
- Data Visualization and Plotting
- Machine Learning, including CNN, RNN & Transformer architectures
The whole curriculum, including compulsory and optional subjects, can be seen in the official site for the master's degree .
My experience
I managed to achieve an average grade of 9.05/10, and completed the entire master's degree in the educational year of 2024 to 2025.
Altough the master's delved quite deep in many areas of Data Science and Machine Learning, some lessons overlapped with the Computation specialization of the University Degree in Computer Engineering, which I had already completed, so it was a bit of a shame to be re-taught some lessons.
Digital scan of the certificate (in Spanish).
English translation:
University of Alicante
Polytechnic School
AWARDS THIS
DIPLOMA
to
Baeza Esteve, Vicent
University Master's Degree in Data Science
Alicante, 21st of November 2025
Final project
The Master's Degree in Data Science requires a final project as part of its graduation requirements, which must be done individually for every student and defended in front of a tribunal of professors.
My final project, titled "Exploration of architectures based on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks", explores and tests the Kolmogorov-Arnold architecture for neural networks, which was at the time a promising alternative to traditional MLPs.
The complete report (in Spanish) can be seen below:
