Data Science Certificate
There are no good decisions today without good data. This data science certificate program prepares students for the data science field in business and government, a fast-growing segment in business and technology. Data is everywhere and business intelligence, machine language, and artificial intelligence knowledge are increasingly important. The field continues to have high job growth and many job opportunities, including data scientist, business intelligence analyst, among other career paths, are available in the Washington metropolitan region. Title IV federal financial aid is not available for this data science certificate program when taken alone but is available when taken as a component of the M.S. in Information Technology, M.S. in Cybersecurity or M.S. in Emerging Technology programs.
The certificate in data science covers the essentials of this science as an analytics tool—from data investigation and analysis, data computation sampling, data structures, simulation, data visualization, and much more. This data science certificate program’s end-to-end exploration of the data analytics lifecycle prepares students to specialize in certain aspects of this lifecycle in their career, or help businesses and organizations gain insights across the full lifecycle.
Three required courses:
- IT 540: Enterprise Data Management and Analysis
- IT 546: Principles of Data Science
- IT 566: Computer Scripting Techniques
And one of the following:
