Nov 21, 2024

2021-2022 General Catalog

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Data Science - MS

College of Science

Department of Computer Science

Requirements for the Master of Science in Data Science are listed below. Students must complete 30 credit hours, 12 of which must be at the 6000 level or above (excluding CS 6900 , CS 6250 , CS 6970 , STAT 6250 and STAT 6970 ). All students will complete a Plan A MS which includes the completion of a thesis that will be reviewed by their committee.

Required Courses

Students are required to complete 6 credits of either CS 6970 or STAT 6970 and CS 6900 (a 1 credit seminar course). Furthermore, students must take 9 credits from the following list of courses (excluding CS 6970 , CS 6900 and STAT 6970 ):

Elective Courses

Students may complete the course credits for the degree by choosing courses from the required or elective list of courses. Only 3 credits of CS 5950 or CS 6950 are allowed. CS 6890 and STAT 5810 are allowed only if the topic is in the field of Data Science.

CS 5950 - Independent Study 3 or
CS 6950 - Directed Readings in Computer Science 3
CS 6250 - Cooperative Work Experience, Graduate 1-9 or
STAT 6250 - Graduate Internship/Co-op 1-8
CS 6600 - Intelligent Systems 4
CS 6680 - Computer Vision: Foundations and Applications 3
CS 6800 - Advanced Database Systems 3
CS 6890 - Topics in Computer Science (Topic) 1-4
MATH 5720 - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics 3
STAT 5550 - Statistical Visualization I 2
STAT 5560 - Statistical Visualization II 2 or
STAT 6560 - Statistical Visualization II 2
STAT 5810 - Topics in Statistics 1-3
STAT 6080 - Data Technologies 2
STAT 6100 - Advanced Regression Analysis 2
STAT 6150 - SAS Predictive Analytics 2
STAT 6410 - Applied Spatial Statistics 2
STAT 6550 - Statistical Computing 3
STAT 6650 - Stat Learning: Multivariate Stat Analysis for Bioinformatics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning 3
STAT 6710 - Mathematical Statistics I 3
STAT 6720 - Mathematical Statistics II 3
STAT 6910 - Seminar in Statistics 1-3 (Principles of Machine Learning and/or Statistical Computing)