KTH Royal Institute of Technology
MSc Data-Driven HealthStockholm, Sweden
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2025
TUITION FEES
SEK 342,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The master's programme in Data-Driven Health equips you with the skills to employ data to transform healthcare and improve people's health. You will acquire technical skills in data processing, data mining and machine learning, combined with expertise in health systems and systems biology. After graduation, you face exciting career opportunities in a quickly expanding field.
Data-Driven Health at KTH
The master's programme in data-driven health provides expert knowledge on how data can be used to change and streamline healthcare and improve people's health. The focus is on using health data from healthcare, self-produced data, community data and health data from other sources in the analysis. You will explore different ways of processing, storing, modelling and analysing data to put data-driven insights into a complex context. You will gain an understanding of the type of data that exists, how it is structured, and how to adapt it for effective analysis. "Data curation" and "data governance" are also technical parts of the programme. During your studies, you will work with real cases, for example, by analysing data on different diseases and looking at young people's mental health. You will also gain valuable insights into healthcare organisations to prepare you for your future career.
Admissions
Curriculum
The two-year master's programme in Data-driven Health consists of three terms of courses and one final term dedicated to the master's degree project. Each term consists of approximately 30 ECTS credits.
Year 1
Mandatory Courses
- Introduction to Health Data, 2,5 ECTS Credits
- Statistics for Biomedical Engineering, 7,5 ECTS Credits
- Datamining and data warehouse, 5 ECTS Credits
- Healthcare ethics, legal and social impact, 5 ECTS Credits
- Health data standards systems, 2,5 ECTS Credits
- Healthcare Logistics, 5 ECTS Credits
- Applied machine learning and data mining, 7,5 ECTS Credits
- Simulation methods in medical engineering, 7,5 ECTS Credits
- Project in data-driven health, 7,5 ECTS Credits
- Federated learning and computing, 7.5 ECTS Credits
Elective Courses
- Sensors and real-time gathering of health data, 2,5 hp
- Real-world data in an ageing society 2.5 hp
Year 2
Mandatory Courses
- Entrepreneurship in technology and health, 4,5 ECTS Credits
- Scientific Methods in Technology and Health 3 hp
- Project in data-driven health, 15 ECTS Credits
- Degree project, 30 ECTS Credits
Elective Courses
- Deep Learning Methods for Medical Image Analysis, 7.5 ECTS Credits
- Cybersecurity for health data, 7,5 ECTS Credits
Scholarships and Funding
KTH offers four different scholarship opportunities for master's studies. The KTH Scholarship covers the tuition fee of a one or two-year master’s programme. The KTH One-Year Scholarship is aimed at current KTH master's programme students and covers the tuition fee for the second year of studies. The KTH Joint Programme Scholarship is aimed at students in certain joint programmes and covers the tuition fee for the study period spent at KTH. The KTH India Scholarship is aimed specifically at students from India.
- KTH Scholarship
- KTH One-Year Scholarship
- KTH Joint Programme Scholarship
- KTH India Scholarship
Swedish Institute
The Swedish Institute (SI) offers a number of scholarships for students from targeted countries coming to Sweden.
KTH-associated Scholarship Organisations
KTH cooperates with the following organisations providing scholarship opportunities for prospective KTH students.
- COLFUTURO (Programa Crédito Beca) for students from Colombia
- LPDP (Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education) for students from Indonesia
- FUNED for students from Mexico
Scholarship Portals
IEFA Database
The IEFA database offers a comprehensive scholarship search, grant listing and international student loan programmes.
Studyportals
The Studyportals scholarship database lists over 1,000 scholarships and grants for students worldwide applying for studies in the EU.
Scholars4dev
Scholarships for Development is a database of scholarships open to students from developing countries.
WeMakeScholars
WeMakeScholars helps students from India secure education loans from banks and NBFCs. They also list more than 26,000 international scholarships from different trusts, foundations and govt. bodies.
Deferment of Student Loans in the United States
KTH is an accredited institution at the US Department of Education and holds a Title IV 'Deferment Only' status (OPE ID 03274300). US students may defer payments on existing federal student loan accounts while enrolled in a master’s programme at KTH. The 'Deferment Only' status does not allow students to take out federal student loans for enrolment at KTH. However, the accreditation facilitates grant and loan opportunities for US students as many private student loan institutions in the US use this designation as a requirement to grant new loans. Students who wish to defer payments must contact their lending institution in the US.