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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Bulletin
Data Science BS
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Data Scientists provide insight and predictions from data. They work in research labs, startups, corporations, universities, governments, and nonprofits. A degree in data science provides students with skills for acquiring, managing, visualizing, mining, and modeling data. Students in this program learn tools and techniques for working with Big Data and using machine learning for making predictions. They consider implications of decisions made with data for human rights and privacy from an appropriate ethical, legal, and Christian framework. The program consists of a core set of data science, computer science, mathematics, and statistics courses and the choice of a minor or certificate where students learn discipline-specific techniques and issues.
The Data Science BS program is shared between the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Computing in the College of Professions.
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Application Area - 12+
Completion of a minor (or second major) in any area or an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate. See https://www.andrews.edu/cp/computing/data_science.html for recommended courses in common areas such as Accounting, Behavioral Sciences, Biology, Finance, Marketing, Physics, and Public Health.
Additional Requirements
No grade lower than C- may be counted toward major, cognate, or application area requirements.
Student Learning Outcomes
Graduates of this program will:
- Know how to collect, clean, anonymize, and manage data from different sources in a convenient system for analysis.
- Understand issues and solutions for storing, managing, and analyzing large-scale data sets.
- Apply techniques to understand, visualize, identify, and communicate trends in data.
- Identify appropriate tools, algorithms, mathematical techniques and models to perform desired analysis; understanding limitations and pitfalls.
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