Year 1, semester 1
Core subjects
- Financial Reporting, Statements and Analysis
- Managerial Economics
- International Business Environment
- Marketing Management
- Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Dynamics
Online MBA in Data Science at Lovely Professional University
Set up in Punjab in 2005, the university teaches this MBA fully online. The subjects teach statistics, coding and how machines learn.
- Allowed by UGC to teach online
- NAAC A++
- Ranked 31 in India (NIRF)
Total fee₹2,01,000
Duration2 years
Live classesWeekends
Course fees
₹50,000per semester
Four payments of ₹50,000, one at the start of each semester.
Payments on this plan
- Semester 1₹50,000
- Semester 2₹50,000
- Semester 3₹50,000
- Semester 4₹50,000
- Course fee on this plan
- ₹2,00,000
- Application fee, paid once
- ₹1,000
- Total
- ₹2,01,000
3 scholarships
- Achievement at international level in sports, research, culture or community work100% off
- Achievement at national level in sports, research, culture or community work100% off
- Spinal cord injury with a disability of 70% or more100% off
Each one covers the whole course, exam and registration fee.
These scholarships are for students from India.
An achievement counts if it came in the 3 years before admission.
A student can use only one scholarship or one LPU discount, not two together.
For fresh graduates
Pay ₹50,000 at the start of each of the 4 semesters. The total is ₹2,00,000.
Eligibility criteria
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Full eligibility details
- A bachelor’s degree in any subject is needed, or a qualification LPU accepts as equal to one.
- A finished Company Secretary (CS), Chartered Accountancy (CA) or Cost and Management Accountancy (CMA) course also meets this rule.
- LPU does not list a minimum mark or an age limit.
Admission steps
- RegisterRegister on the LPU Online website and pay the ₹1,000 registration fee. This fee is not refunded.
- Fill in the formAdd personal, contact and education details to the application form.
- Pay the feePay the fee online, for one semester or for the whole course.
- Upload documentsUpload the documents the form asks for and a recent passport-size photo.
Every student also needs two government student IDs at admission. One is an ABC ID, which records course credits, and the other is a DEB-ID. Both are made online.
Weekend classes
- Live classes
- Live online classes on weekends, and recorded video lessons.
- Weekly time
- About 8 to 10 hours of study a week.
- Exams
- Online exams on LPU’s learning website, on a phone, laptop or desktop. Each exam is supervised online and recorded.
- Exam marks
- 70% of each subject’s marks come from the end-term exam and 30% from work during the term.
- Exam months
- End-term exams are usually held in June and December.
- Language
- Taught in English only.
- Time to finish
- 2 years. Up to 4 years is allowed.
Course syllabus
Year 1, semester 2
Core continues
- Corporate Finance
- Operations Management and Research
- Business Analytics
- Research Methodology
- Legal Aspects of Business
- Communication for Leaders
Year 2, semester 3
Specialisation begins
- Corporate Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- Generic Elective I
- Seminar on Summer Training, or one more course from the generic elective list
- Probability and Statistics
- Data Science Toolbox
- Advance Data Visualization
Year 2, semester 4
Specialisation continues
- Generic Elective II
- Capstone Project
- Fundamental of Machine Learning
- Data Analytics with Python
- Big Data Analytics
Main topics
Probability and statistics, tools for working with data, making charts, teaching computers to learn from data, coding in Python, and handling very large data.
Skills taught
Statistical modellingMachine learning applicationData visualisationData pipeline designExperiment design
University rankings
31NIRF list of universitiesAmong India's top 50 universities, 2025
49NIRF list of all colleges and universitiesAmong India's top 50 colleges and universities, 2025
44NIRF list of management schoolsAmong India's top 50 management schools, 2025
- Location
- Phagwara, Punjab
- Started
- 2005
- Type
- A private university set up by an Act of the Punjab government in 2005.
Career options
Best for
- Analysts who make reports and want to build models that predict results
- Engineers who want to work on machine learning
- Research staff who work with large amounts of data
- Staff who plan products or run operations and want stronger technical skills
First jobs
Data AnalystJunior Data ScientistMachine Learning AssociateReporting Analyst
With experience
Data Science ManagerLead Data ScientistHead of Analytics EngineeringAnalytics Director
Industries that hire for these roles
- Technology
- Banking and financial services
- E-commerce
- Consulting
- Healthcare analytics
Compare universities
| University | Total fee | Credits | Specialisation subjects | Course page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lovely Professional University | ₹2,01,000 | 102 credits | 6 subjects, including:
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| Amity University Online | ₹2,07,000 | 99 credits | 6 subjects, including:
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| Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune | ₹1,89,400 | 102 credits | 8 subjects, including:
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| Manipal University Jaipur | ₹1,84,500 | 90 credits | 8 subjects, including:
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Course FAQs
Yes. LPU offers this MBA with one specialisation or with two. This page lists the subjects of this one only.
Yes. Students from India with a national or international achievement in sports, research, culture or community work pay no course, exam or registration fee. The achievement counts if it came in the 3 years before admission. Students from India with a spinal cord injury and a disability of 70% or more also pay none of these fees. Only one scholarship or one LPU discount can be used.
Part of it can be. For fees paid each semester, it depends on when the student tells LPU, counted from the last admission day LPU announces. Telling LPU 15 or more days before that day returns the full fee, less ₹500. Less than 15 days before returns 90%. Up to 15 days after returns 80%, and 16 to 30 days after returns 50%. After 30 days, nothing is returned.
Semester 3 has Probability and Statistics, Data Science Toolbox, and Advance Data Visualization. Semester 4 has Fundamental of Machine Learning, Data Analytics with Python and Big Data Analytics.
It suits analysts who make reports and want to build models that predict results. It also suits engineers who want to work on machine learning. The careers section lists more.
Data Science covers writing code, working with data, teaching computers to spot patterns, and charts that show results. Business Analytics covers business reports, forecasts, and using data to make decisions. Both teach Advance Data Visualization and Big Data Analytics. Year 1 is the same for both.
Data Science covers writing code, working with data, teaching computers to spot patterns, and charts that show results. Information Technology covers how software is built and run, how data is kept safe, networks, and reports for managers. Both teach Advance Data Visualization and Data Analytics with Python. Year 1 is the same for both.
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