School list (Data Science)

# School list (Data Science) ### The following school is listed by the rank of data science program in US News ## Rank 1 -- UC Berkeley Program 1. Master of Analytics in Department of Engineering **Duration**: 11 months **Test**: GRE required **Tuition and Fee**: 65,000 **Feature**: intensive python used **Personal Rating**: 4 ## Rank 2 -- Carnegie Mellon University Program 1. Master of Computational Data Science in Department of Computer Science **Duration**: 16 - 20 months **Course Requirement**: 144 credits including a capstone project **Test**: GRE required, TOEFL > 100(with LRWS all > 25) **Tuition and Fee**: 83,131 **Feature**: 1 -- This program highly focuses on computer science 2 -- Students should choose one concentration among Systems, Analytics and Human Interactive Data Science 3 -- Students are required to complete an internship 4 -- 80 out of 780 students received admission in 2021 **Personal Rating**: 10 ## Rank 4 -- Stanford University Program 1. Master of Data Science in Department of Statistics **Duration**: 15 - 18 months **Course Requirement**: 45 units including a capstone project **Tuition and Fee**: 90,525 **Feature**: 1 -- This program is clings more to mathmetics, students are required to take 5 mathematics/statistics courses **Personal Rating**: 4 2. Master of Science in Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering **Duration**: 2 years **Course Requirement**: 45 units **Test**: GRE is not required **Tuition and Fee**: 80,234 **Feature**: 1 -- Students should choose one track among General CME, Computational Geoscience, Data Science, Imaging Science, Mathematical & Financial Computing 2 -- Students will take 5 fundamental math course **Personal Rating**: 7 ## Rank 6 -- Cornell University Program 1. Master of Professional Studies -- Data Science in Department of Statistics and Data Science(Option II) **Duration**: 1 year **Course Requirement**: 30 credit hours **Tuition and Fee**: 62,456 **Feature**: 1 -- This program has two options, one for traditional statistics, and another for data science 2 -- The core course seems to be more clinging to statistics **Personal Rating**: 5 ## Rank 7 -- Georgia Institute of Technology Program 1. Master of Analytics in College of Business & Department of Computer Science and Engineering **Duration**: 1 year **Course Requirement**: 36 credits including a practicum or internship **Test**: GRE is required **Tuition and Fee**: 56,000 **Feature**: 1 -- Students can choose among Analytical Tools Track, Business Analytics Track and Computational Analysis Track 2 -- The program will provides a wide range of support including job placement, software resource and funding on conference **Personal Rating**: 6 ## Rank 8 -- Columbia University Program 1. Master of Science in Data Science(jointly offered by Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Industrial Engineering) **Duration**: 1 year **Course Requirement**: 30 credits **Test**: GRE is optional(2022) **Tuition and Fee**: 96,392 **Personal Rating**: 4.5 ## Rank 9 -- University of Illinois urbana-champaign Program 1. Master of Science: Statistics-Analytics in Department of Statistics **Course Requirement**: 10 courses **Feature**: Focus on traditional statistics and analysis that encompasses statistic topic that falls on machine learning, data mining etc. ## Rank 10 -- University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor Program 1. Master in Data Science (jointly offered by Computer Science and Engineering, the Department of Statistics, the School of Information, and the Department of Biostatistics.) **Duration**: 1.5 years **Course Requirement**: 14 courses **Test**: GRE not required **Tuition and Fee**: 52,456 **Feature**: 1 -- The loading of statistical related courses are small 2 -- Free to choose courses related to CS/DS **Personal Rating**: 7.5 ## University of Californial-Irvine Program 1. Master of Data Science(offered by Department of Statistics, School of Computer Science) **Duration**: 15 months **Course Requirement**: 10 required + 3 elective + 2 capstone **Test**: GRE is not required **Tuition and Fee**: 52,290 **Feature**: 1 -- Only computational focused school in UC system 2 -- Career Development Team is provided **Personal Rating**: 6 ## Rice University Program 1. Master of Data Science(offered by Data Science Initiative) **Duration**: 1 year **Course Requirement**: 31 credit hours including a capstone project **Tuition and Fee**: 54,100 **Feature** 1 -- Three specializations are provided: Business Analytics, Machine Learning and Image Processing **Personal Rating**: 4 2. Master of Computational Science and Engineering(offered by Department of Computational Mathematics and Department of Statistics) **Duration**: 1.5 years **Course Requirement**: 10 courses **Test**: GRE is not required **Tuition and Fee**: 54,100 **Feature** 1 -- Students should choose between computational track or statistics track 2 -- This program focus on using computer to do the computations 3 -- It's a computer-science-oriented program **Personal Rating**: 8.5 ## Northeastern University Program 1. Master of Science in Data Science(offered by College of Computer Science and College of Engineering), Boston Campus **Duration**: 2.5 years **Course Requirement**: 32 semester hours **Tuition**: 55,400 **Feature**: 1 -- This program focus highly on engineering and computer science, little statistics or math courses are included 2 -- This is a "co-op" program, which put emphasis on students' cooperative skills 3 -- "coop" provides a great opportunity for students to look for internship and job **Personal Rating**: 7 1. Master of Science in Data Science(offered by College of Computer Science and College of Engineering), Silicon Valley Campus **Duration**: 2.5 years **Course Requirement**: 32 semester hours **Test**: GRE not required for 2022 **Tuition**: 55,400 **Feature**: 1 -- This program focus highly on engineering and computer science, little statistics or math courses are included 2 -- This is a "co-op" program, which put emphasis on students' cooperative skills 3 -- "coop" provides a great opportunity for students to look for internship and job **Personal Rating**: 7 ## Northwestern University Program 1. Master of Science in Analytics(offered by School of Engineering) **Duration**: 15~18 months **Course Requirement**: 18 courses **Test**: GRE is required **Tuition and Fee**: 63,318 **Feature**: 1 -- Strongly focus on project and internship 2 -- Courses are fixed 3 -- Most students have Bachelor Degree in US **Personal Ranking**: 7.5 ## University of South California Program 1. Master of Science in Applied Data Science(offered by School of Engineering) **Duration**: 2 years **Course Requirement**: 32 units **Test**: GRE is not required **Tuition**: 68,384 **Feature**: 1 -- Highly focus on computer science, AI and machine learning **Personal Ranking**: 7 ## University of California, San Diego Program 1. Master of Science in Data Science (offered by Data Science Institute) **Duration**: 1 ~ 2 years **Course Requirement**: 48 units **Tuition**: 46,856 **Feature**: 1 -- Can choose between a thesis option or course-oriented examination option 2 -- This program is more math-based **Personal Rating**: 6 ## University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities Program 1. Master of Science in Data Science (offered by Department of CS, EE, and College of STAT and BioStat) **Duration**: 2 years **Course Requirement**: 31 credits include a capstone project **Test**: GRE is not required but recommended **Tuition**: 54,775 **Feature**: 1 -- Focus on statistics, algorithm, infrastructure and large scale computing 2 -- This program is more clings to Computer Science **Personal Rating**: 6.5 ## Vanderbilt University Program 1. Master of Science in Data Science **Duration**: 2 years **Course Requirement**: 16 courses including a capstone project **Test**: GRE is optional **Tuition and Fee**: 112,846 **Feature**: 1 -- Courses are almost fixed **Personal Rating**: 3 ## University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill Program 1. Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics (offered by Department of Statistics & Operations Research) **Duration**: 1.5 ~ 2 years **Course Requirements**: 30 credit hours including a Master's Essay **Test**: GRE is required **Tuition and Fee**: 58,679 **Feature**: 1 -- Students can choose to be specialized in Data Science, Statistics, or Operation Research 2 -- Courses are more statistical-based **Personal Rating**: 4.5 ## Duke University Program 1. Master of Science in Statistical Science(offered by Department of Statistical Science) **Duration**: 2 years **Course Requirement**: 36 credits including a portfolio of work or Master's thesis **Test**: GRE is required **Tuition and Fee**: 85,588 **Feature**: 1 -- Six tracks are included: PhD, Data Science, Health Data Science, Finance, BA, Social Science 2 -- Courses are more statistical-based **Personal Rating**: 5 2. Master in interdisciplinary Data Science **Duration**: 2 years **Course Requirement**: 42 credits including a capstone project and a summer internship **Test**: GRE is not required **Tuition and Fee**: 85,588 **Feature**: 1 -- Students should submit an essay of leadership experience 2 -- Students should provide a video response 3 -- This program focus more on your leading and communicating ability **Personal Rating**: 8 ## University of Pennsylvania Program 1. Master of Science in Engineering in Data Science **Duration**: 1.5 ~ 2 years **Course Requirements**: 10 courses **Test**: GRE is not required for 2023 **Tuition and Fee**: 83,304 **Feature**: 1 -- Students can choose between thesis-based or job-oriented 2 -- Students can choose courses freely **Personal Rating**: 8 ## New York University Program 1. Master of Science in Data Science (offered by Center for Data Science) **Duration**: 2 years **Course Requirements**: 36 credits including a capstone project **Test**: GRE is required **Tuition and Fee**: 79,184 **Feature**: 1 -- Courses is data-science-oriented 2 -- Some courses require solid mathematical foundation 3 -- Students are required to take internship if they choose industry concentration **Personal Rating**: 9 ## North Carolina State University Program 1. Master of Computer Science -- Track in Data Science **Course Requirements**: 31 credit hours 2. Master of Science in Analytics **Duration**: 10 months **Course Requirements**: 30 credit hours **Test**: GRE is not required **Tuition and Fee**: 50,663 **Feature**: 1 -- Great job outcome is expected 2 -- This program will arrange internship for students **Personal Rating**: 4 ## Brown University Program 1. Master in Data Science **Duration**: 1 ~ 2 years **Courses Requirement**: 9 courses **Test**: GRE is required **Tuition and Fee**: 82,826 **Feature**: 1 -- Courses are fixed **Personal Rating**: 6.5 ## University of Chicago Program 1. Master of Science in Analytics (MScA) **Duration**: 12 ~ 18 months **Course Requirement**: 12 courses **Test**: GRE is not required but can be submitted **Tuition and Fee**: 62,556 **Feature**: 1 -- Most of the teachers come from the industry 2 -- Graduate students tend to work in fintech company 3 -- This program is more businees-oriented **Personal Rating**: 6