Data Science :Eligibility ,Career Path and Best Programs

Data Science  is  a course that is combination of business, statistics and mathematics. It involves a lots of statistics ,algorithms and analytical tools .This knowledge is used to retrieve the past data  ,analyze it and use it for present business development and patterns for the future. They hence turn raw data into a useful and informative format that helps in taking important and critical organizational ,operational ,strategic and policy decisions.

Data scientists are in demand across all domains of business such as marketing , finance, banking etc. as they highly rely on trend predictions, operation scaling ,consumer targeting for growing business. Data scientists are also hired by research organizations and government  policy departments.

An undergraduate degree has a duration of about 3 years. There are a few specialization courses for data science which include machine learning and artificial intelligence .

Skills Required :

Programming language ( R and Python ), Coding Mathematics

Eligibility :

10 +2 / graduate in science from a recognized board (other graduates may also be eligible ) with 50% and above or equivalent grades.

Career Path :

Application architect ,Enterprise architect ,Machine learning ,Business analytics professional

Best Programs :

• PG program in IIM Calcutta ,IIT Kharagpur ,ISI
• Advanced Program in Data Science : IIM Calcutta
• PGP Data Science  : Purdue , Simplilearn
• Post Graduate Program in Data Science  : Praxis Business School, The PGP in computational Data Science offered by the International School of Engineering  (INSOFE )
• T A Pai Management Institute or TAPMI’s Post Graduate Certificate Program in Leadership through Analytics and Decision Sciences
• PGDM – Big Data Analytics : the Goa Institute of Management
• Certificate Program in Data Science :IIM Kozhikode
• MSc Data Science : Chennai Mathematical Institute