A few universities and other organizations have started to offer data science curriculum, training and certificates.
University Programs
The following excerpts are taken from the respective programs.
Many other institutions have strong analytics programs, including Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, MIT and Georgia Tech, Wharton (Analytics Initiative). For a map of academic data science programs, visit
A typical academic program (University of Washington) features the following courses:
Certifications and other training
A few organizations - both private as well as professional organizations - offer certifications or training. In particular:
Fees range from below $100 for a certification with no exam, to a few thousand dollars for a full program.
It is also possible to get data science training at almost any of the many conferences focusing on analytics, big data or data science:
Vendors such as EMC, SAS or Teradata also offer valuable training. Web sites such as Kaggle.com allow you to participate in data science competitions, get access to real data, and sometimes the award is being hired by a company such as Facebook or Netflix.
Coursera.com offers online training at no cost. Instructors are respected University professors, so the material can sometimes feel a bit academic. Here are the few of their offerings, at the time of writing:
Finally, in the next article, we will describe our online, on-demand, free program that comes with real life projects involving big data, and provide an update.
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Thanks for this post! Very informative.
Hi, Thanks for this valuable information.
As I am working in India and it'll not possible for me to join a regular course. Please let me know any university from where I can do my distance study or corresponding learning online course and classes.
Thanks..
Pardeep.
Are there any schools that offer Bachelors degree in Data Science ?
Currently enrolled in Brandeis Startegic Analytics program - http://www.brandeis.edu/gps/courses/programs/listings/strategic-ana...
Is there a comparison metric available for these programs? I am looking for similar comments like @Russel Fenton's below (thanks Russel) where someone has taken these courses/certifications/degrees and either liked/disliked certain aspects of them. Also, are these courses mainly intended for people with prior analytics experience or for starters?
Vincent,
Thank you for your wonderful post! I appreciate the effort you put in to create this comprehensive list.
Just to note that there are other university degree programs in data science, such as Illinois Institute of Technology's Master of Data Science program (http://iit.edu/data-science/masters) which opened up this fall.
Just noticed Oklahoma State also has a SAS Business Analytics graduate certificate as well
Excellent resource. I actually raised this topic in a Data Science professional group as a discussion a few weeks ago. Thank you for sharing.
I am currently taking the Princeton University Statistics One course. I am two weeks in and I am enjoying it very much. The course gives a good base in statistical concepts as well as an intro to R programming. There are no current sessions of the University of Washington's Introduction to Data Science, but the recording of the previous session is available. I have begun watching those videos and have enjoyed it as well. I am through the first 60-70 minutes of videos (labeled "Introduction"). So far the instructor has gone to great length to define "data science" and "big data" as well as give real world examples of where and how they are being utilized. I certainly look forward to the rest of the videos.
Colorado Tech also offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in data management.
http://www.elearners.com/colleges/colorado-technical-university/bac...
Based on what I have read of the course descriptions and what I have read about the different disciplines within the "big data" field I think this is a good first step for someone who is interested in the field.
Also, Oklahoma State University offers a graduate certificate in Data Mining
http://watson.okstate.edu/datamining/
Both programs mentioned above are available online.
Posted 29 March 2021
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