Minimum number of credits required to graduate: 124
Minimum Cumulative GPA required to graduate: 2.0
Minimum number of credits to complete the major: 40
School: School of Arts and Sciences
Department: Natural Sciences and the School of Engineering and Computational Sciences
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Environmental Data Science (EDS) combines two popular majors at Merrimack College: Environmental Sciences and Sustainability and Data Science. The EDS major is designed to teach students how to manage environmental challenges and resources through the lens of data science and critical and analytical thinking by synthesizing, mining, and understanding data. The curriculum uses a variety of analytical approaches to assess and explore patterns in environmental problems, identify solutions, and communicate quantitative information to policymakers and the public, including through the visualization of data. Graduates of the major will be prepared for a variety of career fields as environmental data scientists, analysts, and consultants.
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