Data Science Certificate

Minimum number of credits required to graduate:  12

Minimum Cumulative GPA required to graduate:  3.0

The Data Science Certificate introduces students to the discipline of data science by developing foundational skills in extracting decision-guiding insights from data. 

• In DSE 5001 Introduction to Data Science and Statistics students will learn what data science is, what data scientists do, what types of problems data scientists solve, and the fundamental statistical techniques that are used.
• In DSE 5002 R and Python Programming, students will use the coding languages R and Python to collect, explore, clean, wrangle, and summarize large data sets.
• In DSA 5400 Visual Data Exploration, students will use industry-leading software to “tell the story of the data” by creating graphical summaries with Tableau and interactive dashboards with R Shiny.

This certificate is geared toward professionals who are interested in acquiring data literacy and developing the core data analytic skills that are the foundation for careers in data science. It assumes some prior STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) coursework and/or quantitative aptitude. 

Admission Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree, with a minimum of 3.0 cumulative GPA
• Resume