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Data Science Online MS Curriculum

Mentor guiding a coding student. Credit: Next Academy, Unsplash.

Our online MS in Data Science program curriculum features 6 core courses,and the opportunity to select from predesigned tracks in Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics or Microeconomic Analysis, along with a range of electives to personalize your executions and meet your career goals. 

All classes prepare students to succeed in their individual tracks and the capstone: DATA-793 Data Science Practicum, where students get hands-on experience working directly with faculty and other researchers on projects.

Data Science Practicum

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Students in the Data Science Practicum (DATA-793) provide project-specific technical, analytic, and research assistance to faculty, government, and business clients.

See also our Data Science Lifecycle video mapping out the stages of data science project development and their relationships with AU course options.

Course Requirements & Degree Tracks

Degree Requirements

  • 30 credit hours of approved graduate work
  • Capstone Experience: DATA-793 Data Science Practicum (3)

Course Requirements

Required (12 credit hours)

  • DATA-612 Statistical Programming in R (3)
  • DATA-613 Data Science (3)
  • STAT-615 Regression (3)
  • STAT-627 Statistical Machine Learning (3)

Analysis/Statistics (3 credit hours)

  • GOVT-650 Political Analysis (3)

Methods (3 credit hours)

  • STAT-614 Statistical Methods (3)

Required (9 credit hours)

  • DATA-641 Applied Natural Language Processing (3)
  • DATA-642 Advanced Machine Learning (3)
  • DATA-645 Neural Networks and Deep Learning (3)

Required (6 credit hours)

  • ITEC-620 Business Insights through Analytics (3)
  • ITEC-621 Predictive Analytics with Machine Learning (3)

Elective (3 credit hours)

Complete 3 credit hours from the following:

  • ITEC-660 Business Intelligence (3)
  • ITEC-670 Database and AI (3)

Required (3 credit hours)

  • ECON-600 Microeconomics (3)

Electives (6 credit hours)

Complete 6 credit hours from the following:

  • ECON-624 Applied Econometrics II (3)
  • ECON-632 Finance, Stability and Growth (3)
  • ECON-642 Public Economics (3)
  • ECON-661 Survey of Economic Development (3)
  • ECON-673 Labor Economics (3)