A data scientist is a person who should be able to leverage existing data sources and create new ones as needed in order to extract meaningful information and actionable insights. These insights can be used to drive business decisions and changes intended to achieve business goals.
This is done through business domain expertise, effective communication and results interpretation, and utilization of any and all relevant statistical techniques, programming languages, software packages and libraries, data infrastructure, and so on.
The degree prepares students for work in various industrial, governmental, and business positions. Graduates will be able to: Conduct research on open-ended industry or organization questions; Extract large volumes of data from both internal and external sources; Clean and remove irrelevant data information from usable data; Analyze data for weaknesses, trends, and/or opportunities; Create algorithms to solve problems and build new automation tools
Intake: Fall and Spring
Expected January, June 2025
College of Science and Engineering
117 Pleasant Street SE,
MINNEAPOLIS,
Minnesota,
55455, United States
Student are required to have a high school graduation
English Language Proficiency Requirements: TOEFL iBT – 79; IELTS Academic – 6.5; Pearson Test of Academic English (PTE Academic) – 59; Cambridge Assessment English (CAE) C1 Advanced – 180.
Application Deadline for Fall: For freshmen international students the deadlines are November 1 (early action 1 deadline), December 1 (early action 2 deadline) and January 1 (regular deadline)