{"id":6583,"date":"2013-12-02T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:35:42","slug":"davenport-praises-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=6583","title":{"rendered":"Davenport Praises Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Wall Street Journal\" src=\"..\/images\/wsj.jpg\" alt=\"Wall Street Journal\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>Writing in the <a title=\"Wall Street Journal\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/cio\/2013\/11\/06\/more-collaboration-needed-on-big-data-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Tom Davenport (author of the bestseller <a title=\"Competing on Analytics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Competing-Analytics-The-Science-Winning\/dp\/1422103323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Competing on Analytics<\/a>) praised the Institute&#8217;s innovative approach to graduate education as a model to be emulated. Davenport is critical of what he sees at other universities, where analytics degree programs are typically placed in a single school and, as a result, offer a narrow perspective. Lamenting the lack of faculty collaboration, Davenport asks &#8220;But why can&#8217;t we all get along? The earliest graduate degree in analytics, the\u00a0<a title=\"Master of Science in Analytics\" href=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=1799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Master of Science in Analytics<\/a> at North Carolina State, was a cross-university initiative from its beginning in 2007.&#8221; First proposed by<!--more--> Dr. Michael Rappa in April 2006 and launched with a 3-year gift from SAS, the MSA program has become a model of collaboration for interdisciplinary programs, delivering an unparalleled track record in student outcomes for six straight years. &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy to get academics to work together across schools,&#8221; Davenport said &#8220;but in NC State&#8217;s case it seems to have been worth the trouble. The program is fantastically successful in terms of student applications and corporate hiring of graduates.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Tom Davenport (author of the bestseller Competing on Analytics) praised the Institute&#8217;s innovative approach to graduate education as a model to be emulated. Davenport is critical of what he sees at other universities, where analytics degree programs are typically placed in a single school and, as a result, offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25990,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions\/25990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}