The computer science masters program is built around a set of three core areas: theory, systems and artificial intelligence. The concentration in Data Science adds a requirement for visualization, more statistics and focuses your electives to provide you with the skills to transform big data into better decisions.
The Masters Concentration in Data Science teaches you to develop and apply methods to collect, curate, and analyze large-scale data, and to make discoveries and decisions using those analyses.
The Center for Data Science has rolled out a Data Science Concentration for our masters degrees as well as a Certificate in Statistical and Computational Data Science. Several new data science courses support these academic programs.
COMPSCI 590D Algorithms for Data Science
COMPSCI 590S Systems for Data Science
COMPSCI 590V Data Visualization and Exploration
The Certificate in Statistical and Computational Data Science is a joint effort between the Department of Math & Statistics and the College of Information and Computer Sciences. This reflects the reality that data science is based in both statistics and computer science. The concentration consists of five courses divided between statistics and computer science.
The Center for Data Science is based in the top ranking College of Information and Computer Science at UMass Amherst. The College offers the following computer science programs:
UMass Amherst data science undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs take jobs at top institutions, including faculty positions at:
and industrial research and engineering jobs at:
and others, as well as leadership positions at startups.
