MSA Alumni Community Report – Master of Science in Analytics

MSA alumni

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ANALYTICS – ALUMNI PROFILE (2008 – 2024)
Number of graduates (97% graduation rate):	1,409
Percent employed in the profession:	96%
Number of employers:	513
Percent employed in the U.S.:	97%
Percent employed in North Carolina:	51%
Average / median age:	34 / 32
Percent who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents:	86%
Percent who identify as female:	41%
Employed at graduation:	91%
Average starting salary (real dollars):	$117,380
Average compensation in 2024 (survey-based estimate):	$179,349
Promoted since graduation (within 3 years on the job):	43%
Average time to first job promotion (months):	27
Estimated contribution to U.S. GDP (in millions):	$244.7
Note: Updated December 31, 2024. The MSA Alumni Report is updated annually in December.

Jonathan, Jennifer, Jeremiah, Viola and Mirna, MSA Class of 2016

TOP-40 EMPLOYERS – MSA ALUMNI 2008-2023
Accenture Ally Amazon Ankura Apple Bain & Company Bank of America Capital One Cigna/Evernorth Cisco Credit Karma Databricks Dataiku Deloitte Duke University Elder Research Elevate EY Fidelity Investments Fifth Third Bank	Google Guidehouse JPMorgan Chase LendingTree Lowe’s Companies M&T Bank Meta Microsoft NC Joint Underwriters Assoc. Pendo Red Hat RTI International SAS The Home Depot The Walt Disney Company Truist UNC Chapel Hill US Government Verizon Wells Fargo

Learn more about what they’re doing now, in the alumni interviews section of DataColumn, the student blog.

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The Alumni Report is published each year in December, since 2017, the tenth anniversary of the MSA program.

Nathan, Amy, Michael, Charlotte, and Andrew, MSA Class of 2019