Graduate Certificate - Data Analytics

Program Description 

This program prepares graduates for employment in managing, using, and exploiting data in organizations to enhance decision-making. This program is particularly useful for individuals who wish to shift careers or add to their repertoire of current skills. Such skills are useful in almost every area of business, including accounting, management, marketing, finance, etc. The effective management of data has become increasingly important in organizations, as companies gather more and more data and use it for strategic purposes. Using this data for better decision-making remains a primary goal of data analytics. Effectively using data requires expertise in a number of areas, including data management and cleansing, descriptive/predictive/prescriptive analytics, advanced statistics, and data mining, to name a few. While in small organizations, an analyst may need skills in many areas, in larger companies’ employees typically focus in particular areas. The Graduate Certificate and MS in Applied Data Analytics provide a solid foundation for work in the technical field of analytics. Depending on the electives students choose, they will be able to focus on select areas of data analytics.