Analytics, Graduate (ANMS)
Program Lead: Rand Ford, Ph.D.
This 36-semester hour program prepares the student by providing depth in analytics during the first
year and focused functional study during the second year that can be applied to any discipline or any
interdisciplinary area. Data analysts are forging new relationships in virtually every discipline: business,
healthcare, geology, mathematics and statistics, biology, chemistry, computer science, information
systems and technology, engineering, psychology, behavioral science, operations research and more, in
addition to potential interactions between these disciplines, using role-based interaction with
information and analytics to enable highly- collaborative, data-driven organizations The graduate of
this program enters the workforce prepared for the complex, information-intensive world.
The Analytics student may specialize in the following areas: Natural Language Processing, Machine
Learning, Forecasting or an individualized concentration.