MS in Applied Data Analytics at Boston University

The Master of Science (MS) in Applied Data Analytics program provides students with solid knowledge of the foundations of data analytics and emphasizes the presentation and discussion of the latest industry tools and approaches within an academically rigorous framework. The curriculum provides a thorough immersion in concepts and techniques for organizing, cleaning, analyzing, and representing/visualizing large amounts of data. Students will be exposed to various database systems, data-mining tools, data visualization tools and packages, Python packages, R packages, and cloud services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Mass Open Cloud. The knowledge of analytics tools combined with an understanding of data-mining and machine-learning approaches will enable students to critically analyze real-world problems and understand the possibilities and limitations of analytics applications.