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Earn Your Bachelor’s Degree in Data Analytics — 100% Online

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.

Prepare for a career in the private and public sectors as a data analyst, decision-maker, and communicator. This online data analytics degree prepares students with the math, science, and computer skills needed to perform detailed data analytics, as well as communication fundamentals required to present data to a variety of audiences in written, visual, and spoken formats.

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Focus Your Online Data Analytics Bachelor’s Degree with a Concentration

Tailor your online Bachelor of Science in Functional Data Analytics degree by selecting one of the three concentrations to suit your unique career goals, play to your strengths, and/or improve your overall marketability.

Explore the application of analytics in four domain areas: business, engineering, humanities and the social sciences, and science.

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 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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