Data Science and Analytics Undergraduate Degree

What You’ll Learn

The Bachelor of Science in Data Science (BSDS) program helps you develop the knowledge and skills needed to address opportunities that benefit individuals, organizations, and society. You will take innovative courses in data mining, information retrieval, visual analytics, social media trend spotting, human-computer interaction and information policy. The program focuses on teaching you how to create novel information products, develop new insights about people's behavior and solve problems that require large and disparate datasets, in domains such as health care, finance, research and development, and business operations. BSDS students learn to:

• Define and operationalize domain specific and context-relevant data analysis hypotheses that generate meaningful insights for individuals, organizations, and society.
• Select, transform, and integrate data sources to support the needs of data-intensive problems with solutions that scale to real-world deployment contexts.
• Implement appropriate, reproducible, and adaptable techniques for acquiring, retrieving, and developing data sets.
• Build, evaluate, and apply analytical and predictive models to answer DS questions and solve business problems.
• Visualize and interpret results of quantitative analysis and communicate them to stakeholders.
• Continuously develop new skills and improve professional abilities that integrate computing skills with quantitative analysis techniques, and domain knowledge.

How You Can Customize Your Degree

You can customize the degree by adding a minor from the many choices in the Howley College of Engineering and Computing and/or the hundreds of minors across the University.

How You Can Gain Real-World Experience Before Graduating

Real-world experiences, such as co-ops, our annual hackathon, and a full-year team capstone project, will allow you to build solutions for business and society problems and develop professional relationships.

Cooperative Education

Drexel Co-op allows students to test drive careers, network and gain experience before graduation. Students choose from more than 1,700 employers in 35 states and 45 international locations or conduct an independent search. Visit the Steinbright Career Development Center website to learn more.

Senior Project

Every student participates in a final, collaborative project that challenges them to tackle a relevant problem proposed by one of our many corporate sponsors. It is a year-long process with students working alongside industry mentors. Read more about Senior Project.

Codefest — SCIS’s Hackathon

Every spring, SCIS hosts Philadelphia’s largest hackathon complete with corporate-sponsored challenges that have often been translated into real, marketable solutions. Read more.

Where the Degree Can Take You

As a BSDS graduate, you will be prepared for a wide range of professional and graduate study pathways that derive insights from quantitative analyses, engineer scalable workflows, and develop data-intensive applications. Career directions span data science roles, including data architecture and infrastructure, predictive systems development, data and machine learning engineering, data analysis, and statistics.

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