The UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) program is a 10-month professional master's program in Data Science. The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a comprehensive research-intensive university, consistently ranked among the 40 best universities in the world. The MDS program was launched in September 2016 and is offered by a collaboration between the UBC Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics. The program involves 24 one-month courses followed by a two-month Capstone Project. MDS started at UBC's main campus in Vancouver, and has since expanded to the Okanagan campus and to a computational linguistics option of the program.