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Apply to the Master of Data Analytics Degree or a data analytics graduate certificate with no need to worry about GMAT or GRE scores.
Why Choose an Online Data Analytics Degree from Penn State?
- Multiple credentials — You can earn graduate certificates while your work toward your data analytics master’s degree.
- Future-focused — Our flexible undergraduate degree program offers concentrations in program evaluation, financial analytics, and cross-disciplinary analytics, allowing you to focus on your goals.
- Optional extracurriculars — As a graduate student, you can engage with faculty and the Penn State student body by becoming involved with the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) or participating in the annual Nittany AI Challenge held at University Park, at either the undergrad or graduate level.
Your online Master of Data Analytics degree program core courses — such as data mining, foundations of predictive analytics, and applied statistics — will help you gain solid footing within your degree pathway prior to branching off toward customizing your degree for your future. You can then choose either the base program, the big data systems option, or the business analytics option to align your master’s degree in data analytics with your goals.
A Penn State data analytics master’s degree can prepare you to pursue jobs such as data modeler; data architect; extraction, transformation, loading (ETL) developer; business intelligence (BI) developer; data warehouse developer; data analyst; systems analyst; financial analyst; and more.
Earn Stackable Credentials on the Way to Your Online Master’s in Data Analytics Degree
Interested in being able to show your progress toward achieving your master’s degree in data analytics? Penn State offers graduate certificates that you can earn while you work toward your degree when you select the data analytics master’s degree base program. It’s a great way to validate your new skills and add valuable credentials to your résumé — without any additional course work or application fees.
Finish the following three certificate requirements and the 3-credit capstone course, and you will have completed the requirements to earn your data analytics master’s degree base program. Please note you must apply and be accepted to each program on an individual basis, but you will not be charged application fees for any program beyond the first.
Complete Both of These Certificates
Complete One of These Certificates
Go Further with Your Penn State Online Master’s Degree in Data Analytics
An education through Penn State World Campus encourages you to explore your talents beyond the classroom. While progressing through your program, you will have the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities traditionally available to resident students.
- Engage with faculty affiliated with the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) to solve problems of scientific and societal importance via institutional research.
- Get involved with the Nittany AI Challenge and join a multi-disciplinary team that works to address pressing global issues and build solutions using AI and machine learning. The Nittany AI Challenge is held at University Park but is open to World Campus students.
The Bachelor of Science in Functional Data Analytics, offered 100% online through Penn State World Campus, is tailored to prepare you for a successful career as a data analyst, decision-maker, and communicator in both the private and public sectors.
Courses in this program include:
- Descriptive analytics: Explores how to answer and communicate “what happened?” on a project or initiative
- Diagnostic analytics: Examines the relationships between variables through root cause analysis, to determine why something happened
- Predictive analytics: Predicts future events based on historical data
- Prescriptive analytics: Introduces how data analytics assists in making decisions and advocating for a course of action
- Qualitative analytics: Offers an overview of data analytics techniques for non-numeric data
- Data visualization: Presents techniques and software used for data visualization
- Social media management and analytics: Provides a deep exploration of social media management, digital marketing, SEO/M, and analytics
Focus your Online Data Analytics Bachelor’s Degree with a Concentration
Cross-Discipinary Analytics Concentration
Explore the application of analytics in four domain areas: business, engineering, humanities and the social sciences, and science.
Financial Analytics Concentration
Financial analytics is the use of tools and processes to combine and analyze data sets to gain insights into the financial performance of your organization. Bringing together data from all your systems gives you a holistic view of your business and broader insights that help you to predict and improve performance.
Program Evaluation Concentration
Program evaluation is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using information to answer questions about projects, policies, and programs, particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency.
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