Colleges and Universities are slowly starting to notice the demand for employees with data science skills. Most of the programs are not named data science, but they all focus on producing data people. Below are a couple of the programs I have noticed so far.
Do you know of any other programs?
| School | Program | On-Campus | Online | Degrees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens Institute of Technology | Business Intelligence & Analytics | Yes | Yes | M.S. |
| iSchool @ Syracuse University | Data Science | Yes | Yes | Grad Certificate |
| North Carolina State University | Analytics | Yes | No | M.S. |
| Northwestern University | Predictive Analytics / Analytics | No/Yes | Yes/No | M.S. |
| Stanford University | Data Mining | Some Courses | Yes | Grad Certificate |
| University of Cincinnati | Business Analytics | Yes | No | M.S. |
| Oxford University | Data and Systems Analysis | ? | Yes | Undergrad Adv. Diploma |
| University of California San Diego | Data Mining | No | Yes | Grad Certificate |
| University of Washington | Data Science | Yes | Yes | Certificate |
| Georgia Southern University | Computer Science with concentration in Data and Knowledge Systems | No | Yes | M.S. |
| University of San Francisco | Analytics | Yes | No | M.S. |
| Louisiana State University | Analytics | Yes | No | M.S. |
| Michigan State University | Business Analytics | Yes | No | M.S. |
| New York University | Business Analytics | Yes | No | M.S. |
| College of Charleston | Discovery Informatics | Yes | No | Undergraduate Minor |
| University of Dundee | Data Science | Yes | No | M.S. |
| UC Berkeley iSchool | Information Management and Systems | Yes | No | M.S.I.S. & Ph.D. |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Business Intelligence and Data Analytics | Yes | No (Global) | M.I.S.M. |
| Loras College | Business Analytics | Yes | No | MBA |
| Central Connecticut State University | Data Mining | No | Yes | M.S. |
| Imperial College London | Data Science & Management | Yes | Yes | MSc |
| George Mason University | Informatics or Data Science | yes | No | minor, B.S., M.S., PhD |
| New York University | Data Science | Yes | No | M.S. |
| The University of Manchester | ACS: Data and Knowledge Management MSc | Yes | No | MSc |
| University College London | MSc Web Science and Big Data Analytics | Yes | No | MSc |
| Dublin Institute of Technology | MSc in Computing (Data Analytics) | Yes | No | MSc |
| Sheffield Hallam University | MSc Big Data Analytics | Yes | No | MSc |
| Royal Holloway, University of London | MSc in Big Data | Yes | No | MSc |
| The University of Edinburgh | Informatics MSc | Yes | No | MSc |
| University College London | MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Essex | MSc Big Data and Text Analytics | Yes | No | MSc |
| De Montfort University | Business Intelligence Systems and Data Mining MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert | Yes | No | MSc/Certificate |
| University of Greenwich | MSc Data Warehousing and Data Mining | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of East Anglia | MSc Knowledge Discovery and Datamining | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of St Andrews | MSc. Applied Statistics and Datamining | Yes | No | MSc |
| University College London | PhD Studentships in Statistics Available: “Big Data” and its Applications | Yes | No | PhD |
| Aalborg University | MSc Data Engineering | Yes | No | MSc |
| Linköping University | MSc Statistics and Data Mining | Yes | No | MSc |
| UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School | Msc in Business Analytics | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Milan-Bicocca | Master of Business Intelligence & Decision Support Systems (MU1) | Yes | No | MSc |
| Maastricht University | MSc International Business (track: Business Intelligence) | Yes | No | MSc |
| Aarhus University | Business Intelligence MSc | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Helsinki | MSc Algorithms and Machine Learning | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Antwerp | MSc Computer Science (specialization: Databases) | Yes | No | MSc |
| Dalarna University | MSc Business Intelligence | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Bristol | MSc Advanced Computing (Machine Learning and Data Mining) | Yes | No | MSc |
| Aalto University | MSc Machine Learning and Data Mining | Yes | No | MSc |
| KTH Royal Institute of Technology | MSc Machine Learning | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Westminster | MSc Business Intelligence and Analytics | Yes | No | MSc |
| Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) | MSc Artificial intelligence and decision specialization (M2) | Yes | No | MSc |
| Sheffield Hallam University | MSc Database Professional | Yes | No | MSc |
| Université de Nantes | MSc Data Mining and Knowledge Management | Yes | No | MSc |
| TELECOM SudParis | MSc Automatic Data Processing | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Liverpool | MRes Advanced Science (Computer Science pathway) (Data Mining) | Yes | No | MSc |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Very Large Information Systems | Yes | No | M.S. |
| Brown University | Big Data | Yes | No | PhD |
| University of Washington | Big Data | Yes | No | PhD |
| Penn State University | Social Data Analytics | Yes | No | PhD |
| University of East London | Data Mining and Knowledge Management | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Technology Syndney | Master of Analytics | Yes | No | MS |
| George Washington University | Master in Business Analytics | Yes | No | MS |
| Northwestern College (Iowa) | Analytics Certificate | No | Yes | Undergrad Certificate |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Data Science & Business Statistics | Yes | No | MSc |
| Bournemouth University | Applied Data Analytics | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Warwick | Data Analytics | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Southampton | Business Analytics and Management Sciences (BAMS) | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Kent | Management Science (Business Analytics) | Yes | No | MSc |
| University College Dublin | Computer Science (Negotiated Learning) | Yes | No | MSc |
| Swansea University | Modelling, Uncertainty and Data | Yes | No | MSc |
| Institute of Technology Blanchardstown | Computing (Business Intelligence & Data Mining) | Yes | No | MSc |
| St Joseph University, PA | Business Intelligence | Yes | Yes | MS |
| Pace University | Customer Intelligence and Analytics | Yes | No | MS |
| Fordham University | Business Analytics | Yes | No | MS |
| NYU Stern | Business Analytics | Yes | No | MS |
| USC | CS with Data Science | Yes | No | MS |
| Birmingham City University | Business Intelligence | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Surrey | Business Analytics | Yes | No | MSc |
| Robert Gordon University | Computing: Information Engineering | Yes | No | MSc |
| The University of Manchester | Information Management | Yes | No | MSc |
| Sheffield Hallam University | Web and Cloud Computing | Yes | No | MSc |
| Brunel University | Business Intelligence and Social Media | Yes | No | MSc |
| Warwick Business School | Business Analytics & Consulting | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Leicester | Data Analysis for Business Intelligence | Yes | No | MSc |
| University of Reading | Advanced Computer Science | Yes | No | MSc |
| Illinois Inst. of Tech | Specializations in Data Science | Yes | No | BS & MS |
Here is another similar list of colleges with bigdata/data science programs.
Updated: New schools added and a link to another list of graduate programs. Last update May 2013
