This document discusses the growing field of analytics and data mining education. It provides statistics on the increasing demand for analytics skills and lists several master's programs in analytics that have been established in recent years at universities across the United States. The programs vary in duration, cost, and whether they offer online options. The document also proposes a sample curriculum for a "Data Science pseudo degree" consisting of introductory, upper-division, and graduate-level courses related to data science and machine learning.

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5. • McKinsey: shortage by 2018 in the US of
– 140-190,000 people with deep analytical skills
– 1.5 M managers/analysts with the know-how to
use the analysis of big data to make effective
decisions.
Source:
www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/
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7. Institution US State Program Name Online Option? Length (months) Cost Year Started
Bentley MA MS In Marketing Analytics no 12 to 18 $65,000 2009
Berkeley CA Master of Engineering no 10 na 2013
CCSU CT MS in Data Mining yes 24 na 2001
CMU PA Master of Information Systems Managementno 16 na 2011
Columbia NY MS, concentration in Machine Learning part 24 na 2012
DePaul IL MS in Predictive Analytics yes 24 $37,000 2010
Drexel PA MS in Business Analytics no 20 $45,000 2012
Fordham NY MS in Business Analytics no 12 $34,740 2012
Harvard MA MS in Computational Science and Engineeringno 12 na 2012
LSU LA MS in Analytics no 10 to 12 $22,000 (res. 8,500) 2012
MSU MI MS in Business Analytics no 12 $39,000 2013
NCSU NC MS In Analytics no 10 $36,300 2007
Northwestern IL MS In Analytics no 15 $58,000 2012
Northwestern SCS IL MS in Predictive Analytics Online yes 12 to 24 $39,000 2009
NYU NY MBA, specialization In Business Analyticspart 24 na 2012
NYU NY MS in Business Analytics part 12 $63,500 2013
Oklahoma State OK Grdaute Data Mining Certificate yes 12 $15,000 2008
Rutgers NJ MBS in Analytics no 18 to 24 na 2011
SJU PA MS in Business Intelligence yes 15 to 24 $26,760 2008
Stanford University CA MS Computer Science, Specialization in Information Management and Analyticspart 24 na 2010
Stevens NJ MS in BI and Analytics no 20 $46,000 2012
U. Tennessee TN MS in Business Analytics no 17 $40,000 (r 14,200) 2010
UC OH MS in Business Analytics no 9 to 12 na 2012
UCF CA MS in Analytics no 11 $42,940 2012
Uconn CT MS in Business Analytics and Project Managementno 12 $22,500 2012
UIUC IL MS in Statistics, Analytics Concentration no 12 na 2009
U. Michigan Dearborn MI MS in Business Analytics yes 12 to 24 na 2012
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• Lower-Division Courses
– Data Science 101 – Statistics One
– Data Science 102 – Computing for Data Analysis (R)
– Data Science 103 – Data Analysis
– Data Science 104 – Introduction to Data Science
• Upper-Division Courses
– Data Science 201 – Machine Learning I
– Data Science 202 – Machine Learning II
– Data Science 203 – Neural Networks for Machine Learning
• Graduate Courses
– Data Science 301 – Learning from Data (Caltech course CS101)
– Data Science 302 – Machine Learning III (MIT course 6.867)
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