Mar 12, 2025

2019-2020 General Catalog

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Data Science - MS

College of Science

Department of Computer Science

Requirements for the Masters of Science in Data Science are listed below. Students must complete 30 credit hours. 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 must complete all of these courses.

CS 5665 - Introduction to Data Science 3
CS 5800 - Introduction to Database Systems 3
CS 5830 - Data Science Incubator 3 or
CS 6830 - Data Science Incubator 3
CS 6665 - Data Mining 3
CS 6675 - Advanced Data Science and Mining 3
CS 6800 - Advanced Database Systems 3
CS 6970 - Thesis and Research 1-9

Elective Courses

Students select two of these courses.

CS 6250 - Cooperative Work Experience, Graduate 1-9
CS 6600 - AI: Advanced Intelligent Systems 4
CS 6680 - Computer Vision: Foundations and Applications 3
CS 6890 - Topics in Computer Science (Topic) 1-4
STAT 5810 - Topics in Statistics 1-3
STAT 6550 - Statistical Computing 3
STAT 6650 - Stat Learning: Multivariate Stat Analysis for Bioinformatics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning 3