Online Data Science Graduate Certificate
This graduate certificate is 100% online and designed to give you essential data analytics skills and enhance your value as an essential part of any team.
The Online Graduate Certificate in Data Science prepares you for the future of work, with essential knowledge and skills to solve real-world challenges in almost any business setting.
This 100% online graduate certificate program is designed for students holding a bachelor’s degree in any discipline and includes fundamental knowledge for those without a programming or data science background.
This certificate is perfect for students or current professionals who want to learn data analytics or are required to learn data science for their current role, individuals with a background in statistics looking to increase skills in programming and data management, or developers and tech people who might be looking to change their career or focus on data analytics.
Coursework in this program covers:
- Computational and statistical foundations of data science
- Assumptions and limitations of different data analytics techniques
- Applying data science methodologies and tools to data-driven problems across disciplines
- Extracting knowledge from big data to address real-world challenges
- Retrieving, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data utilizing Python, R, and other data science tools
Admission & Application Requirements
Applications are submitted through the UTSA Graduate Application. Please upload all required documents (listed below) on your UTSA Graduate Application. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure completion and submission of the application, a nonrefundable application fee, and all required supporting documents are on file with UTSA by the appropriate application deadline.
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| Required Degree | Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in the United States or have proof of equivalent training at a foreign institution. | |
| Minimum GPA | 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) Departments may consider GPA of last 60 semester credit hours. Otherwise qualified individuals with a GPA below 3.0 may still be eligible for admission consideration. For further information, please contact [email protected]. | |
| Coursework | Completed adequate credit hours or foreign institution equivalent coursework as preparation for the program. Students interested in this program who have previous education in non-business fields are encouraged to apply. | |
| Transcripts* | Required from all institutions attended; international transcripts must be recorded/translated to English | |
| Credential Evaluation | Required if you have earned university-level credit from foreign institutions. Submit an evaluation of your transcripts from Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE) directly from the graduate admission application platform | |
| English Language Proficiency | 550 TOEFL Paper / 79 TOEFL Internet / 6.5 IELTS / Duolingo 100 | |
| Purpose Statement | Optional (Required if GPA is below 3.0) | |
| Resume | Required | |
| Letters of Recommendation | Optional | |
| *Unofficial transcripts will be taken into consideration for admissions; however, if admitted into the program, you must submit official transcripts to the University. | ||
Careers in Data Science
Because there is a growing need for data-science capable professionals, this program prepares individuals for careers in data science-related fields.
After you complete this program, you’ll be prepared to apply data science in diverse disciplines such as business, engineering, education, defense and security, natural sciences, humanities, health care, social sciences, and many others!
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Explore This ProgramProgram Prerequisites
The prerequisites for this program are at least a bachelor’s degree in any discipline, including fine and liberal arts, business, education, engineering, health, humanity, technology, natural science, and social science. To maintain enrollment in the certificate program, students should maintain a 3.0 grade point average throughout tenure in the program.
Note: Applicants who are currently enrolled in a graduate degree program at UTSA should submit the UTSA Graduate Certificate Form to add a certificate to their current program. Complete and submit the linked form with approved signatures to [email protected].
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tuition for the Graduate Certificate in Data Science program is $550 per credit hour.
There is an industry need for data science-capable professionals, with job titles including data analyst, business intelligence, and developer. Upon completion, you will be prepared to apply data science in real-world domains including defense and security, natural sciences, the social sciences, engineering, business, education, the humanities, health care, and a variety of other fields.
To complete the Online Graduate Certificate in Data Science, students will take five graduate-level courses (15 credit hours).
