Data Science is the emerging interdisciplinary study and application of how we capture, organize, archive, access, and use large-scale data. Data Science alters disciplinary and professional practices, enabling new conceptual approaches and categories of questions, while generating new challenges in ethics and privacy. These issues and opportunities now pervade many areas of human endeavour, from physics to health care to social policy.
To successfully engage with the scope and scale of data resources requires high throughput approaches, with new concepts and practices for effective management, distribution, and presentation of data. Our goal is to give students the concepts and tools to empower their ethical engagement with the emerging potentials and challenges of data, across disciplines and fields of enquiry.
The Certificate in Data Analytics covers conceptual approaches to analyses of large-scale data, which presents both challenges and opportunities.
The Certificate in Data Analytics is 18 credits earned as follows:
September 2025
Faculty of Science
62 York Street,
SACKVILLE,
New Brunswick (NB),
E4L 1E2, Canada
Students registering at Mount Allison are expected to have graduated from high school at the university preparatory level. International English Language Testing System – Academic (IELTS) score of 6.5 with no band score lower than 6.0; TOEFL score of 90 (internet test), With minimum band score: Listening: 17; Reading: 18; Speaking: 20; Writing: 17; CAEL (CE) - Canadian Academic English Language Assessment, Computer Edition – 70 With no part lower than 60; Cambridge English (B2 First, C1 Advanced, or C2 Proficiency) – 176 With no band score lower than 169.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.