纽约州立大学普拉茨堡分校

Learn To Solve Real Problems Using Data from Industry & Government Partners

The availability of massive amounts of data has created a high demand for skilled analytics professionals. Employers are looking for people who can gather, analyze, interpret, share and apply data in a meaningful way to help improve decision making, cut costs and identify new opportunities.

What Will I Learn?

The program is a powerful blend of quantitative coursework and real-world applications. Using current industry-standard tools, our hands-on, lab-based courses give you practical experience:

Use advanced data queries and processing tools to access, clean, transform and integrate data from a variety of sources for visualization, modeling and interpretation.
Apply data integration, data visualization, and data and text mining techniques to identify and analyze useful patterns in data.
Estimate and predict the likelihood of future outcomes based on data to provide organizations with actionable insights.
Apply mathematical optimization and simulation techniques to quantify the effect of future decisions and advise organizations on possible outcomes.
Present complex results and communicate findings and insights in non-technical and clear business language to inform significant business decisions.
Use interpersonal and leadership skills in analytics teams to design creative data analytics solutions to complex business problems.

What is Unique About Our Program?

The curriculum is continually updated to reflect the latest in the field of data analytics.

This is a 10-month cohort-based program, which means you will progress through your courses with the same group of students from start to finish. This allows you to rely extensively on teamwork with your peers.

Other benefits include:

Intensive interaction with highly qualified faculty.
Ability to earn certification in data analytics tools like SAS.
A semester long integrative capstone project involving data and interaction with industry and government partners.
Offered by our AACSB accredited School of Business and Economics.

Graduates of our program can find jobs in:

Market research
Supply chain management
Project management
Data warehousing
Database management
Data/text mining
Big data analytics
Consulting

All our competent faculty hold Ph.D.s from leading U.S. and Canadian universities and have extensive international experience. In keeping with the mission of our college, their primary responsibility is teaching. However, they all keep current in their respective fields by being active in their research and involved in their professional organizations.