B.S. in Data Science

The Bachelor of Science degree in Data Science program offers a comprehensive and innovative curriculum that prepares students to excel in the data-driven world. Students learn skills to collect, manage, interpret, and analyze data in order to assist in making data-driven decisions. The goal of the program is to educate and graduate professionals who are equipped for employment as data scientists or to continue their education in graduate school.

Data Science is an applied discipline that addresses the challenge of generating actionable knowledge from data. Using interdisciplinary methods to extract knowledge or insights from large quantities of data, data scientists employ techniques and theories drawn from mathematics, statistics, and computer sciences and apply them to data-rich domains.

Our project-based approach, industry partnerships, and emphasis on research and practical applications provide students with the necessary skills and experience to thrive in the field of data science.

Students will:

• Use data to construct evidence-based solutions.
• Assimilate skills acquired through the degree program in application to a capstone project providing solutions to real-world challenges.
• Acquire data from a variety of sources including public research, web pages, and social media.
• Convert unstructured and varied data into analysis-ready form.
• Use software packages and libraries to support data analysis.
• Use statistical theory and modern machine learning techniques to model observations and make predictions.
• Implement data storage and processing architectures across clusters of commodity hardware and cloud resources.
• Manage issues related to program performance, scalability, and high-availability.
• Communicate deftly with proficiency in both verbal and nonverbal communication.
• Present actionable results of data analysis in multimedia formats to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

General Education Requirements

For a full description of Embry-Riddle General Education guidelines, please see the General Education section of this catalog. These minimum requirements are applicable to all degree programs.

Data Science Degree Requirements