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Permalink Reply by Vincent Granville on July 25, 2013 at 12:36am

Hi Nitin - here area few references:

• Data Science Apprenticeship
• Map of data science university programs
• Job titles for data scientists
• How to better compete with other data scientists
• Horizontal vs. Vertical Data Scientists
• Data Scientists vs. Data Engineers
• Extreme Data Science
• 66 job interview questions for data scientists
• Test your analytical intuition
• Are data scientists overpaid?
• Data Science projects billed $300/hour on Kaggle
• The Face of the New University
• Fake data science
• Free courses from top universities
• Time Period for Analytical Positions Recruitment
• Data scientists making $300,000 a year
• Berkeley course on Data Science

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Permalink Reply by Nitin Kotasthane on July 25, 2013 at 10:49pm

Thanks Vincent for the list, but would like to know does the duration of MS program matters ? Generally MS degree duration is 24 months where DS MS degree is around 12-14 months.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Pedde on August 14, 2013 at 11:13pm

I thought the 10 month program at NC State was sufficient but it depends on your background and aptitude for an analyst or data scientist role.  It was enough for me to learn and become very proficient in SAS and start learning R and a few other analytic tools.  I came from a math and stats background so that wasn't a problem for me, I concentrated more on my programming and consulting skills.  I basically learned enough to get my foot in the door but since then I have been a sponge, learning more advanced methods, programming languages, tricks of the trade and all about the different hardware that is used.

I can't speak for the other programs, but NC State was top notch.  The faculty is second to none.  Look at the different programs and what classes they offer and programming languages they teach, some are nearly identical and some are different.  It all depends on what path you want to take.

I hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by DEVANAND on October 11, 2013 at 12:30pm

Hello Nitin,

If you are looking for Data Mining program Oklahoma State University has a very good program through which i have gone through 3-4 years ago. please go through the following and let me know if you have any questions. http://spears.okstate.edu/sasosu/sasosu/program/

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Permalink Reply by Prasad Pande on June 21, 2015 at 4:18pm

Hi Nitin,

Refer to Master's in Data Science. It has all information in detail and the universities list that provide Masters program in Data Science/Analytics.

I'm currently doing my Masters from UTD in Computer Science with Data Science as my major track. I referred to this one while choosing universities.

Thanks & Regards,

Prasad

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