Data Science (100% online)
Offered at IU East by School of Business and Economics
About
This is an online program.
Why IU East Online? An affordable Indiana University degree, courses flexible to your schedule, and dedicated credit transfer counselors--plus, IU East pioneered online education at IU!
In the Information Age, enormous amounts of data are generated every day in a range of areas, including social media, search engines, insurance companies, healthcare organizations, hospitals, defense, and retail. Data science is now a rapidly growing, high-paying field.
As a student in the online B.S. in Data Science program, you collect, organize, and analyze data to make meaningful conclusions. You write programs to perform data analysis on large, complex data sets. You evaluate the social, legal, and ethical issues that arise from the mass collection of data.
Specific areas of focus include:
- Data acquisition and storage
- Data exploration and curation
- Data modeling and analysis
- Data visualization and presentation
- Data ethics and governance
Your online B.S. in Data Science prepares you for such careers as:
- Business intelligence analyst
- Data mining engineer
- Data architect
- Data scientist
- Analytics manager
- Research analyst
- Information officer