Students in the Master of Science in Analytics program moved into the second phase of their studies with the commencement of fall semester classes today. The curriculum consists of newly developed “modular” courses designed for and limited to MSA students. Unlike conventional degree programs on campus, the MSA semester is partitioned into three segments each of which is five weeks in duration. The modules are taught by an interdisciplinary team of nine faculty from six departments in four colleges. The fall semester includes modules on topics such as Time Series and Forecasting, Optimization, Text Analytics, Customer Analytics, Data Security and Privacy, Geographical Data Analytics, Survival Analysis and Data Mining. With fall semester also begins the Analytics Practicum, in which students are organized into teams and engage with sponsoring organizations to work on real-world problems.
