Sabancı University has introduced a new undergraduate program that will provide education in data analysis skills, which are highly needed in all institutions and stand out as one of the professions of the future. The Data Science and Analytics Program will start in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Sabancı University continues to open new programs with the aim of raising graduates who are global citizens with a solid knowledge base and strong self-confidence. Sabancı University has opened the “Data Science and Analytics” undergraduate program, which will provide the skills to correctly collect, examine, and interpret relevant data in order to create effective strategies and policies in all institutions.
The Data Science and Analytics Program was designed to train experts who will respond to needs based on the importance of data in making strategic decisions today. The Data Science and Analytics Program stands out as an interdisciplinary program for its interdisciplinary design permitting students to take courses from the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Sabancı Business School. The curriculum of the Data Science and Analytics Program enables students to learn how to use and analyze data effectively, while also allowing them to develop themselves so that they can apply these skills in bioinformatics, industrial engineering, psychology, economics, finance, social sciences, and many other fields. The program also aims to provide students with the ability to interpret information through big data analysis in the fields of engineering, social sciences, and management sciences.
In the new undergraduate program, courses such as Introduction to Data Science, Advanced Programming and Visual Data Analysis for Data Science, Big Data Technologies, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Technologies (Gen Al), Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models (Gemini, Chat GPT), Applied Statistics, and Econometrics and Optimization will be given on top of a good mathematical background. In addition, courses on data science in economics, finance, marketing, management sciences, psychology, political science, and similar fields will also be included in the curriculum.
It Will Be One of the Most Demanded Jobs of the Future
According to the “Future of Jobs” report published by the World Economic Forum in 2023, it is predicted that there will be many new job opportunities in fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning with positions such as data scientist and analyst, big data specialist, data engineer, and similar fields. With the program, which will be attended by those who want to create value from big data in a certain field, students will develop their skills in data processing and interpretation, statistical modeling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, interpreting results, analytical thinking skills, data science, and analytics applications in different disciplines and computational social sciences.
It is anticipated that graduates of the Data Science and Analytics Program will have the opportunity to work in many fields such as finance, energy, telecom, health, e-commerce, media, marketing, transportation, human resources, public institutions, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations.