{"id":26530,"date":"2026-05-20T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=26530"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:42:28","slug":"celebrating-our-msa-26-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=26530","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Our MSA &#8217;26 Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to the 61 graduates in NC State University&#8217;s Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2026 \u2014 the Institute for Advanced Analytics&#8217; 19th cohort! Despite ongoing uncertainties in the job market, 43 students (<strong>70.5%<\/strong>) accepted offers of employment as of May 18, with a median base starting salary of $<strong>105,000<\/strong>. These figures surpass those of the past two years by a small margin. <a href=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View the 2026 Employment Report<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute honored the Class of 2026, along with their families and friends, in a special graduation ceremony on May 2. Some of the photos from the event are featured <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/NJjnn4T4jH2GWZA99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the 61 graduates in NC State University&#8217;s Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2026 \u2014 the Institute for Advanced Analytics&#8217; 19th cohort! Despite ongoing uncertainties in the job market, 43 students (70.5%) accepted offers of employment as of May 18, with a median base starting salary of $105,000. These figures surpass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26531,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26530\/revisions\/26531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}