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Why Choose an Online Data Analytics Program 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.
This 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. Choose an option (big data systems, business analytics, or base program) that best aligns with your education and career goals.
The Bachelor of Science in Functional Data Analytics 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 topics 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
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