Here’s a brief rundown of some recent accomplishments over the past year.
- We were approved to offer a Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Analytics beginning in Fall 2023! This was a year-long effort
on behalf of the faculty and many of our partners around the university.
- We changed the names of all of our programs and the Center to reflect the name of
the school, so now the Minor, MS, and PhD are all in Data Science and Analytics.
- Enrollments in our general education and service courses remained strong in 2022-23, and were up over 21% since our founding in AY ‘20-21:
- STAT 1401 - 5,294
- DATA 1501 - 734 (+410 since 21-22)
- STAT 2332 – 1,429
- STAT 3125 – 501
- We held two of our largest and most successful Analytics Day events in November 2022 and May 2023, bringing in hundreds of partners, visitors,
and students from across the region.
- The Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics has a 99% job placement rate within the first 6 months
after graduation, with almost all those students going directly into analytics and
data science jobs. Our MS and PhD programs are consistently ranked as Top 50 Best Value Big Data Graduate Programs.
- The PhD in Data Science and Analytics was founded in 2015. Our PhD students have produced
4 patents and over 250 publications so far. Approximately 40% of our PhD students
are female.
- The Center for Data Science and Analytics (CDSA) has generated over $3 million in research funding by working with more than 15 companies on REAL data science research projects. These projects are carried out by interdisciplinary teams of faculty, PhD, MS, and sometimes undergraduate students in collaboration with partners.
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- Our on-line, on-demand certificate programs (OPEN TO ANYONE) are providing needed skills to boost the data science and analytics
workforce in Georgia. You can learn more about R, Python, or Rapid Miner with these
programs.
- The DS 7900 and STAT 8940 classes are sponsored every semester by companies like Southern
Company, IHG, Equifax, SPANX, and Coke One North America. Students work on an analytics
problem, present their solutions to company executives, and have a chance to win a
prize!
- Alums of our programs have gone on to work in data science and analytics roles in
places like Equifax, Home Depot, Coke One North America, HP Innovation, the Atlanta
Braves, Americold, Truist, University of Pennsylvania, Tennessee Technological University,
and University of New Hampshire.
- Our undergraduate minor in Data Science and Analytics can be included in ANY major. It typically has around
150 students, making it one of the most popular minors at KSU. Our undergraduate researchers
have presented at Posters at the Capitol (Atlanta) and Posters on the Hill in Washington, DC multiple times.
- Industry, government, and organizations continue to partner with us to find solutions
to their data-centric problems by collaborating with faculty and students through
the Center for Data Science and Analytics (CDSA), the Human Studies Lab, and the Care Informatics Lab. Faculty research expertise spans healthcare, credit scoring, medical research, epidemiology, AI Ethics,
program evaluation, process improvement, and more. Faculty and graduate students are well versed in well-established statistical and analytical methods, as well as
techniques like machine learning, facial recognition, neural networks, and deep learning.
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