COMP9321 Data Services Engineering (UNSW Sydney): rated 3.5/5 overall across 23 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
COMP9321 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the Faculty of Engineering in School of Computer Science and Engineering. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 数据服务工程
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Postgraduate Level 9
Handbook year: 2026
This course aims to introduce the student to core concepts and practical skills for engineering the data in Web-service-oriented data-driven applications. Specifically, the course aims to expose students to basic infrastructure for building data services on the Web, including techniques to access and ingest data in internal/external sources, develop software services to curate (e.
COMP9321 has 23 scored reviews: overall 3.5/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 23 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.5/5).
On Reddit: "I did it T1 2020 so my info may be out of date. The first 7ish weeks were related to REST APIs using Python, something that’ll be easy if you’ve had experience before. I think this is pretty relevant to work you’ll do in the real world as well so good to learn. Last few weeks ju…"
On Reddit: "I've done all of these except for 2041 and I would say the most useful (like in a practical sense I guess) would be 3311 and 6080. I did quite like 9321 though and it was probably the easiest out of all of them for me."
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Q: Is COMP9321 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 23 reviews: overall 3.5/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP9321, and when is it offered?
A: COMP9321 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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