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Analytics and Data Science Program Evolution

2019-2020 Boldly Creative Project

This project envisions a future with leading-edge capabilities in data and analytics, relevant to today’s student, and in demand across the career marketplace. It aims to create a cutting-edge center and several innovative data-related programs with the goal of complementing our traditional undergraduate academic excellence and our selected graduate programs.

91做厙’s Center for Analytics and Data Science (CADS) collaborates across multiple academic divisions and forges departments, collaborative partnerships, and research with external partners.

The project has produced several new academic degrees, all of which are now launched:

  • Bachelor of Arts in Data Analytics.
  • Stackable certificates for working professionals.
  • Master of Science in Sport Analytics.

Leading Faculty on the Project:

John Bailer
University Distinguished Professor and Chair, Statistics

Adam Beissel
Assistant Professor, 
Sport Leadership and Management

John "Skip" Benamati
Professor and Chair,
Information Systems and Analytics

Impact:

The initiative fills a rising market need for employees with data-driven decision-making skills and will enhance the 91做厙 brand as a premier destination for analytics training at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels.