Master of Science Data Science

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Data Science
Program Fortune (2024)

The data science master’s will provide you with the technical knowledge and advanced computational skills to meet emerging challenges in big data analytics. With on-campus and online classroom learning formats, you can launch a career in data science with extraordinary faculty members—anytime, anywhere. Our online learning program replicates the classroom experience with 100 percent access to software, faculty advisors, career services, and a large network of alumni. Discover how you can manage and analyze complex data, develop data science models to support decision making, and effectively communicate analytical results to a non-technical audience.

For international students: this is a STEM-designated program, which can qualify you to extend your post-graduation stay in the United States.

Concentrations

Computational Methods

The Computational Methods concentration is designed for data science master’s students who want to develop strong technical and programming skills to solve complex data problems. You’ll be trained to handle and analyze massive amounts of data and to use appropriate analytics and machine learning techniques to gain meaningful insights from data.

Health Care

The health care concentration addresses the increasing need of data scientists responsible for gathering, integrating, analyzing and presenting health related data. Data science master’s students will learn advanced data science methods to support clinical decision systems, to improve patients’ outcomes and clinical care and analyze public health data.

Marketing

The Marketing concentration is designed for data science master’s students who want to combine strong technical skills in analytics with competency in marketing analytics and customer relationship management. You’ll learn how to extract information and gain insights from data to support business decision making and marketing decisions.

Careers

$103,930 Average salary of a data scientist according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (May, 2020)

Our graduates work at Allstate, Amazon, BMO Harris Bank, Deloitte, Facebook, GE Capital, and IBM.

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Roselyne Tchoua
Dr. Tchoua’s interests have always gravitated around making seemingly inaccessible technology or unmanageable amounts of data more reachable. She joined the DePaul Center for Data Science to continue working in the fascinating space between data science and other science fields–including medicine–extracting insight from data using machine learning and natural language processing techniques.
Ilyas Ustun
Dr. Ustun is a data enthusiast – his favorite being data visualization and data mining. He has over 10 years of data analytics and predictive modeling experience in various fields including business analytics, transportation analytics, sensory data analytics, digital agriculture, health analytics, medical informatics, and metabolomics.
Bamshad Mobasher
Dr. Mobasher is the director of the Center for Web Intelligence and the co-founder of the Center for Data Science at DePaul. His general research areas include artificial intelligence and machine learning. In particular, Dr. Mobasher is considered one of the leading authorities in Web mining, Web personalization, and recommender systems.

Alumni Insights

“The data science master’s program offered a wide range of classes, which helped build a portfolio of different skills that are needed in my current job.”

“The electives were extremely helpful. These were the most relevant courses since they covered cutting edge algorithms and technologies.”

“The ability to self-guide with projects and capstone. Program or student-organized hackathons and practice.”

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NSF-Funded Sciunit Project

Dr. Tanu Malik and her group are working on improving reproducibility in broad areas of computational science and data exploration.

Center for Data Science

DePaul CDS fosters collaborations with industry and nonprofits to conduct joint analytics projects, providing data science master’s students with real-world problem-solving experience in data science.

DePaul Data Science Group

Our data science group connects students with industry professionals, alumni, and faculty through workshops, panel discussions, skill trainings, and hackathons.

Online Learning

This degree can be completed entirely online. One hundred percent of the program’s lectures—from audio and video to whiteboard writing and supplemental materials—are captured and available online.

Focus on Real Data

Students work on real-world applications to gain experience in analyzing complex data sets. Recently, data science students and faculty collaborated with the Chicago Department of Public Health to develop a program that narrowed the “unknown” race data gap in COVID-19 tests from 47% to 11%.

The Visual Informatics and Data Analytics Group

The Medical Informatics Lab and the Intelligent Multimedia Processing Lab house state-of-the-art research combining theory and experimental methodologies to provide novel solutions to challenging data problems.

Application Deadlines

Enrollment Quarter	Domestic Student Deadline	International Student Deadline
Fall	August 1	June 15
Winter	December 1	October 15
Spring	March 1	January 15
Summer	May 1	April 15

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Admission Process

The graduate application process involves completing an online application, sending in your transcripts and submitting any supplemental material (e.g., letters of recommendation, certifications, etc.). Learn more about this program's specific admission requirements.

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