Dive Brief:
- The University of Colorado at Boulder has added a minor in statistics to its Department of Applied Mathematics and revamped a number of courses to help graduates meet workplace needs.
- According to eCampus news, CU-Boulder’s new classes are available for undergrad and graduate students, featuring high-level math, statistics, statistical analysis, and computer science.
- As a range of companies look for people with the skills to make sense of reams of data, defining what data analytics is has been a challenge in a university where marketing, engineering, computer science, and geography departments all might have different takes.
Dive Insight:
It has become easier to collect data about customers and the marketplace as new technologies become widely adopted by users. In higher education, that is also true. Colleges and universities have information about when students swipe their user IDs to access libraries and other campus resources, when they log into learning management systems, what classes they take, and more. Data analytics is a budding field in a number of industries, which are working to harness that data, find patterns, and use them to better serve customers. It only makes sense for math departments to offer programs training students for the increasingly high-demand field.