Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, M.S.

Navid Hashemi, Program Director

https://datascience.cofc.edu/graduate/

Mission Statement

The Mission of the College of Charleston’s Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science degree program is to fill the growing demand for graduates with data-driven, quantitative, analytics, and computing skills - i.e., a data scientist.

Program Description

There are several overlapping but distinct ways to identify and define a data scientist. At the heart of data science is the goal of knowledge discovery from data. This requires a core of specialized skills from the domains of computer science and mathematics complemented with significant exposure to a domain of specialization (e.g., business, science, social sciences, and humanities).

Graduates of this degree program will master the following core skills: Data Modeling, Data Wrangling, Experimental Design, Statistics, Optimization, Machine Learning, and Data Visualization. The core skills are complemented by domain-specific elective coursework. Recommended elective packages are provided which specifically prepare students for the following career goals: Machine Learning Data Scientist, Modeling and Software Engineering Data Scientist, Computational Data Scientist, Scientific Computing, and a Business Analytics Data Scientist. All students in this program will apply their core and domain-specific skills and knowledge to either an industry practicum or research thesis experience.

The specific learning objectives of the program are:

1. Graduates will demonstrate advanced and applied knowledge of computer programming, data organization, data mining, data visualization, and algorithms.
2. Graduates will demonstrate an advanced understanding in the core area of mathematics and statistics, including optimization, machine learning, regression, and linear algebra.
3. Graduates will demonstrate an application of their data science graduate coursework through the completion of a Practicum Experience or Research Thesis.

Admissions Requirements and Application Deadlines   

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, M.S. Admission Requirements  

Transfer Credit Policy

No program specific guidelines. Please refer to the Graduate School’s transfer credit policy .

Program Requirements

• Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, M.S.   

Program Learning Outcomes

• Data Science and Analytics, M.S. (PDF)