Kennesaw State’s College of Continuing Education and the Analytics and Data Science Institute announced a partnership on March 13 to improve access to three certificates for graduate students and professionals.
The certificates include Applied Statistics using “SAS,” Applied Statistics using “R” and Applied Data Science using “Python.” Associate Dean of the Graduate College and Director of the Analytics and Data Science Institute Jennifer Priestley said that the courses will be taught online and emphasized that the students will have the full support of the instructors and staff that are involved with the programs.
“While the material is 100 percent asynchronous and online, we are real people, so students can always come over here and talk to us and ask us questions,” Priestley said.
According to the Marietta Daily Journal, KSU is the only university in Georgia authorized by SAS to issue a Certificate in Statistical Analysis using SAS. The analytics certificates are part of the university’s applied statistics curriculum. The data science certificate builds programming and data visualization skills.
“Previously we were running [the certificates] through the academic franchise within the university,” Priestley said. “By now having the College of Continuing Education manage all three of these certificates, we can now make the material and the content more broadly available to a much bigger audience than we ever could have just being housed within an academic unit.”
Priestley said additional resources will be available for students in professional environments including faculty adding office hours for additional instruction. There will also be a demonstration of different methods of acquiring and using data.
“[KSU is] different because we integrate the theory and the application in everything we do,” Priestley said.
The certificate programs will include free enrollment for students, a 50 percent military discount as well as discounted rates for businesses that enroll five or more employees into the certificate programs, according to the MDJ.
Additional information can be found via KSU’s Analytic and Data Science Institute page.
