Data Science
A focused graduate program in Data Science
Data Science, Graduate Certificate
A Graduate Certificate is available for students wanting to further their education.
Data science continues to be in high demand and the skills for data practitioners are needed in every industry. The Graduate Certificate in Data Science at MTSU allows everyone the opportunity to learn the data skills needed to compete in the current and future marketplace.
Students will learn how to solve data related problems by understanding the data, exploring and cleaning the data, then visualizing the data to create and optimize predictive models. Skills learned include:
- A business-driven approach to problem solving with data.
- The foundational statistical knowledge needed to understand and manipulate data.
- Programming skills to clean, transform, explore, visualize, and build models with data using Python and its relevant libraries.
- Necessary skills to tune and optimize models for production, so that you not use data, but you make it actionable.
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Data Science, Graduate Certificate
This degree is intended to help individuals be more competitive in their current role or allow them to pivot into a new career path. Below are different careers and companies for this Graduate Certificate.
Careers directly related to this certificate
- Business Analyst
- Business Intelligence Analyst
- Data Analyst
- Data Analytics Consultant
- Data Architect
- Data Engineer
- Data Infrastructure Engineer
- Data Mining Engineer
- Database Administrator
- Junior Data Scientist
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Marketing Analyst
- Operations Analyst
- Quantitative Analyst
- Software Developer
- Systems Analyst
Career path with experience or additional education
- AI Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Quantitative Researcher
- Statistician
Notable Companies looking to hiring in Data Science:
- Accenture
- Amazon
- Asurion
- Bank of New York Mellon
- Bridgestone
- CAT Financial
- CGI
- Change Healthcare
- Deloitte
- Digital Reasoning
- Dollar General
- EFC Systems
- Genesco
- Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
- HPA Cognizant Technologies
- Ingram Content Group
- Juice analytics
- LBMC
- Nissan
- State of Tennessee
- Stratasan
- The General
- Tractor Supply
- Trinisys
- Vaco
- Vanderbilt Medical
MTSU’s Career Development Center
MTSU offers a comprehensive Career Development Center that serves students throughout the full student experience and beyond. They collaborate with faculty and staff to equip students with the tools to be marketable to the world of work and continuing education.
Students can schedule an appointment or check online resources and job boards at mtsu.edu/career.
Students can find current internship opportunities by talking to faculty and visiting the University job and internship board called .
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Students in Data Science programs at MTSU have the added opportunity to work with faculty from across the university on research and data contracts. Through the , the following types of projects are possible:
- Data projects that help nonprofits. An opportunity to sharpen skills and use data for good.
- Data projects with companies. These can be compensated opportunities for students to work on real projects for businesses that need help analyzing their data.
- Data Dives (hackathons), which are events that allow all students to participate in a hackathon style event where data from a nonprofit or company is presented and then students have 24 to 36 hours to analyze the data to solve specific objectives.
- Research projects with faculty. Either funded or unfunded research that is data-driven in any discipline.
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