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Data Science Degree

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

The field of data science is evolving into one of the fastest-growing fields in the world.

The Data Science degree prepares you to impact industries, government, health care, and academia. You'll be in high demand with your expertise to find meaningful data and drive positive business decisions.

Program type:
Major
Format:
On Campus or Online
Est. time to complete:
4-5 years
Credit hours:
120

Why earn a data science bachelor degree?

Application Deadlines
Fall:
Aug. 15
Spring:
Dec. 15
Summer:
May 1

There is significant and growing demand for data scientists in enterprises of all shapes and sizes. The supply of professionals who can work effectively with data at scale is limited. This demand is reflected in rapidly rising salaries for data engineers, data scientists, statisticians, and data analysts.

With UND's undergraduate data science degree, you'll benefit from a program that:

  • Marries computer science, data science and business analytics for well-rounded expertise.
  • Offers a strong curriculum foundation of programming, as well as courses focused on databases, cloud computing, cybersecurity and high-performance computing.
  • Provides opportunities to gain expertise with business analytics for the tools you need to interpret and transform data into actionable insights.

Learn at a Data Science Degree Hub

Agriculture, UAS, energy, utility, construction and transportation sectors all use big data. It’s critical to enhance acquisition, storage, communication and security, as well as to convert the data to usable information. As a big data hub, UND has a laser-focused team working to solve industrial data challenges.

Data Science Degree Online or On-Campus

  • Be part of a highly-skilled workforce that can support the expansion of data science-related industries.

  • Participate in research projects, cooperative education and seminars, as well as working for outside organizations and corporations.

  • Gain the technical skills to successfully work with large data sets. Also succeed in a variety of industries and professional settings with your the strong liberal arts foundation.

  • Benefit from a program housed within the College of Engineering & Mines. We're one of the most well-respected engineering schools in the upper Midwest. 

  • Don’t overlook accreditation. This assures that a school meets an acceptable level of quality. UND programs are fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).

  • Let our team of academic advisors help you plan your major. You'll also have access to personalized Degree Map software to keep you on track to graduate in four years.

What can you do with a data science bachelor degree?

127k

Median salary for computer and information research scientists, 2020

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

22%

Anticipated job growth through 2030

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Graduates of our new data science major have an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a rapidly growing field of computer science. Analyst estimate that the U.S. alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise with data.

Jobs you can expect to qualify for with a data science degree include:

  • Business Intelligence (BI) Developer: Develop and maintain BI interfaces and work in BI tools.
  • Data Analyst: Gather, visualize, transform, and manipulate data.
  • Data Architect: Lay out the framework for how the data will be collected, used, modeled, retrieved, and secured.
  • Data Engineer: Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure.
  • Data Scientist: Use mathematical, statistical, and programming skills to gain insights from data. Research and develop new approaches, as well as manage projects.
  • Database Administrator: Monitor database systems to ensure they function properly, create backups and recoveries, and grant permissions to databases.
  • Machine Learning Engineer: Design, build, and maintain artificial intelligence (AI) software and algorithms.
  • Machine Learning Scientist: Research new data manipulating approaches and design new algorithms.

Data Science Degree Graduates

UND data science degree holders can expect a range of opportunities in careers with many kinds of institutions and in many different industries:

  • Government
  • Businesses
  • Financial institutions
  • Healthcare
  • Scientific research facilities
  • Colleges and universities

Data Science Degree Courses

CSCI 384. Artificial Intelligence. 3 Credits.

A study of algorithms and application of AI. The topics include agent theory, problem-solving with the search, constraint satisfaction problem, game, knowledge-based system, reasoning and machine learning which are widely applicable to design of an intelligent system, data science and mining, information retrieval, pathfinding and classification, etc. Prerequisite: CSCI 242. S.

CSCI 427. Cloud Computing. 3 Credits.

This is the undergraduate-level course on cloud computing models, techniques, and architectures. Cloud computing is an important computing model which enables information, software, and other shared resources to be provisioned over the network as services in an on-demand manner. This course introduces the current practices in cloud computing. Topics may include distributed computing models and technologies, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), virtualization, performance and systems issues, capacity planning, disaster recovery, Cloud OS, federated clouds, challenges in implementing clouds, data centers, hypervisor CPU and memory management, and cloud hosted applications. S, even years.

CSCI 455. Database Management Systems. 3 Credits.

Database concepts, database design (ER, UML), database programming languages (SQL), NoSQL Database, Database Concurrency and recovery techniques, and Database security. Prerequisite: CSCI 242 with a grade of C or better. S, even years.

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MATH 208. Discrete Mathematics. 3 Credits.

Introduction to Set Theory, Functions and Relations, Permutations and Combinations, Logic, Boolean Algebra, Induction, Difference Equations. Other topics from Graphs, Finite Automata and Formal Languages. Prerequisite: an appropriate score in the Placement Testing Program or MATH 103 or MATH 107. F,S,SS.

CSCI 280. Object Oriented Programming. 3 Credits.

An introduction to the concept and execution of Object-Oriented programming, using an appropriate language. Includes an introduction to object creations, classes, inheritance, interfaces, exceptions, overloading, and more. Prerequisite: CSCI 265 with a grade of C or better. S.

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