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Education

Giving graduate and undergraduate students an edge in their careers and offering training for the broader community, NC State has a wide variety of interdisciplinary data science curricula for everyone.

Available Programs

NC State does not offer a Ph.D. in Data Science, but it does offer 9 degrees where a student can incorporate data science into their Ph.D. program.

Many departments at NC State offer graduate minors, which typically require 9 hours for master’s students and 12 hours for doctoral students. Two graduate minors that specifically focus on data science are offered by the Center for Geospatial Analytics in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Environmental Remote Sensing.

Graduate certificates are typically a four-course sequence resulting in a graduate credential

The Poole College of Management offers additional preparation for careers in the high-demand field of business analytics through the Business Analytics Honors Program.