Wittenberg University Accepting Applications For Analytics Programs

From Wittenberg University: Wittenberg University is currently accepting applications and enrolling students in its upcoming August Master of Science in Analytics cohort. Geared toward developing data-savvy problem solvers, this 12-month program provides students with deep analytical skills. It also provides a thorough understanding of how to best use data to meet the needs of an organization’s stakeholders and solve their biggest problems.

Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, Wittenberg’s Analytics program offers students the only full-time, blended graduate analytics program in the United States, allowing students to maintain career and family obligations throughout their education. The program’s cohort model balances immersive monthly residency sessions on campus (three consecutive days per month) with online coursework. The program also includes a year-long project in which each student tackles a significant problem that is both relevant and of great personal or professional interest. The cohort experience allows every student to leave the program with clear evidence of professional readiness to secure a job or to advance within his/her field. The curriculum has been built to simultaneously develop students’ skills in design thinking, data analysis and contextual awareness – yielding the perspective needed to lead teams, understand problems and make better decisions.

Tom Kaplan, Dean of Wittenberg’s School of Graduate and Professional Studies and the program’s Director, says, “The capstone projects of our current students are actionable and respond to problems that are challenging and relevant. One student is using data from his firm, a global feed manufacturer, to optimize food design for various types of animal feed in different regions of the United States. Another is working with millions of records provided by a national disease prevention organization to enhance the ability of physicians to diagnose a common disease sooner, a disease the student has in common with those they seek to help. Two other students are working to better align resources with those suffering from hunger and homelessness. All students in our current cohort are chasing solutions to problems that are more worth chasing than we ever anticipated. They are on the verge of adding more value than most would expect from any graduate capstone project. We could not be more pleased.”

For more information or to apply to Wittenberg University’s Master of Science in Analytics program, visit www.wittenberg.edu/analytics.

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