$25 million—that’s the current tally on the dollar value of employment offers extended to the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2019 during the job placement period, fondly known around the Institute as “March Madness.” The Class of 2019 is on a record-setting pace to become our twelfth consecutive cohort to top 90-percent employment by graduation, with 85-percent of the students already accepting offers Continue reading “March Madness Yields $25 Million”
Congratulations to Sarah Egan Warren on her award at the 14th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium held March 20. The symposium included poster presentations from more than 200 graduate students from NC State University. Students were nominated by Directors of Graduate Programs to participate. The posters were judged by faculty, and the top three posters from each category received recognition. Warren’s poster (“Former Ballet Dancers’ Transfer of 21st Century Skills to Careers as Data Analysts”) was awarded 3rd place for the College of Education where she is completing her PhD in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development. Continue reading “From Ballet Dancer to Data Analyst”
The Institute welcomes applications for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2020 set to matriculate in June. The upcoming deadline for domestic applicants is April 1st. The Institute enrolls up to 120 students each year. Early submission is encouraged. Please contact the admissions staff with any questions you have about the application process.
Organizations interested in sponsoring a student practicum team are invited to submit proposals for consideration for the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2020. The proposal submission period is open through July 1st. Contact the Practicum Manager, Dr. Christopher West, for more information about sponsorship and to discuss the scope and suitability of a proposal. Continue reading “Call for Practicum Proposals”
The Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Kate Bagley to the position of Technical Communication Coordinator. For the past 3 years, Kate has assisted with the Institute’s rigorous summer communication training workshop as well as provided feedback on the students’ resumes and profiles. In addition to her work here, Continue reading “Bagley Appointed to Communications Staff”
The Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of Joe Burke to the position of Professional Development Coach/Counselor. Most recently, Joe completed a post-masters fellowship at the North Carolina State University Counseling Center, Continue reading “Burke Appointed to Coaching Staff”
On November 30th, Hunt Library’s Teaching and Visualization Lab will host a talk by Dr. Healey on the area of deep learning, with a specific focus on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a class of deep neural network often used for image analysis. Continue reading “Deep Neural Networks”
Graduates in the Master of Science in Analytics posted NC State’s highest average salaries upon graduation last May, in a ranking of academic units across campus compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning. In the University’s first Future Plans Survey for Graduate Students, the Institute’s students ranked at the top among the nine colleges with an average reported salary of $101,454 (based on 110 students and a 99% response rate). This compares to an average reported salary of $69,067 for all masters Continue reading “Grads Post University’s Highest Salaries”
Twenty-three student teams in the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) began meeting with their sponsors up and down the east coast from Massachusetts to Florida and into the Midwest. The teams spoke with executives to review business objectives and familiarize themselves with the sponsor organization. The Class of 2019 brings the total number of practicum projects to 180 with 120 sponsors since the Institute’s Continue reading “Practicum Team Kick-Off Meetings”
Congratulations to the Institute’s Andrea Villanes, who received top honors for best presentation at the 2018 ACM Tapia Conference doctoral consortium in Orlando, Florida. Andrea’s presentation, Epidemiological Disease Surveillance Using Public Media Text Mining, is the focus of her dissertation research as a Ph.D. candidate Continue reading “Villanes Receives Conference Award”