Online Graduate Certificate – Computational Data Science

Your talent proves data is much more than numbers. When you take your ability to the next level, you create new possibilities for predicting market trends, discovering customer insights and protecting sensitive information.

Advance your career with the online computational data science certificate at Bradley.

In this program, you'll:

  • Master the computational skills and tools used in data science and grasp the full lifecycle of a data mining project
  • Develop and apply tools that support the data needs of today and tomorrow
  • Use popular programming languages for data science projects, such as R and Python, for data analysis and mining
  • Deploy various state-of-the-art data science toolboxes like TensorFlow

Program Benefits

  • Only four courses required - all on-demand to fit your schedule
  • Courses transfer to the fully online M.S. Computer Science program
  • Same courses developed and taught for on-campus instruction by the prestigious faculty in the Bradley Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

Graduate Admission Requirements

Learn more about graduate admission standards and application requirements on our requirements page.

Career Outlook

Recent Bradley graduates have landed jobs at:

  • Sony
  • Microsoft
  • Epic Systems
  • The New York Times
  • J.P. Morgan Chase
  • Samsung
  • Caterpillar
  • And more!

A data science certificate could help you advance your career as a:

  • Data scientist
  • Research analyst
  • Business analyst
  • Database administrator
  • Business intelligence developer

Course Information

Required Courses - 12 hrs.

  • CS 560: Fundamentals of Data Science - 3 hrs.
    • Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in Data Science and Analytics or Computer Science or Computer Information Systems
  • CS 562: Machine Learning - 3 hours - 3 hrs.
    • Prerequisite: Graduate standing in CS or CIS. Consent of instructor for all other students with graduate standing
  • CS 563: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 3 hrs.
    • Prerequisite: Graduate standing in CS or CIS. Consent of instructor for all other students with graduate standing
  • CS 571: Database Management Systems - 3 hrs.
    • Prerequisite: Graduate standing in CS or CIS, or senior standing in CS or CIS, or CS 210 or CIS 210 or equivalent