Data Science (DTSC) at University of Arkansas

Data scientists make sense of huge sets of data to help businesses, governments, nonprofits and other organizations make smarter decisions. The university's interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science in Data Science will prepare students for a successful career in data science with a strategic skill set, including the ability to:

• Use and apply state-of-the-art technologies for data representation, retrieval, manipulation, storage, governance, understanding, analysis, privacy, and security.
• Develop descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models to abstract complex systems and organizational problems, and to use computational methods to draw data-supported conclusions.
• Use foundational knowledge and apply critical thinking skills to identify and solve problems, make decisions, and visualize data, all with an awareness of societal and ethical impacts.
• Adapt analytics concepts to interpret and communicate findings and implications to senior decision-makers.
• Work effectively in an interdisciplinary team and transfer findings between knowledge domains and to others with no domain experience.
• Communicate using technical and non-technical language in writing and verbally.

Three colleges at the university — the College of Engineering, the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, and the Sam M. Walton College of Business — contribute expertise to the overall major while providing deeper insight into the concentrations they offer, including:

• Accounting Analytics
• Bioinformatics
• Biomedical and Healthcare Informatics
• Business Data Analytics
• Computational Analytics
• Data Science Statistics
• Geospatial Data Analytics
• Operations Analytics
• Social Data Analytics
• Supply Chain Analytics