Data Science

Master of Science

Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media

MSArtificial Intelligence and ComputingDigital FluencyCreativity & InnovationIn-Person or Online
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Named a Top Data Science MS Program in the nation by Fortune (2025)

The data science master’s will provide you with the technical knowledge and advanced computational skills to meet emerging challenges in big data analytics. With on-campus and online classroom learning formats, you can launch a career in data science with extraordinary faculty members—anytime, anywhere. Our online learning program replicates the classroom experience with 100 percent access to software, faculty advisors, career services, and a large network of alumni. Discover how you can manage and analyze complex data, develop data science models to support decision making, and effectively communicate analytical results to a non-technical audience.
 

For international students: this is a STEM-designated program, which can qualify you to extend your post-graduation stay in the United States.

 

Concentrations and Degree Requirements

  • Computational Methods

  • Health Care

  • Marketing

Admission and Aid

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Scholarships and Aid
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Careers

$108,020 
average salary of a data scientist according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (May, 2024)

Our graduates work at Allstate, Amazon, BMO Harris Bank, Deloitte, Facebook, GE Capital, and IBM.

Predictive Analytics job prospects

Faculty

At the School of Computing, you’ll connect personally with faculty while collaborating on research and projects that advance the field.

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Roselyne Tchoua
Dr. Tchoua’s interests have always gravitated around making seemingly inaccessible technology or unmanageable amounts of data more reachable. She joined the DePaul Center for Data Science to continue working in the fascinating space between data science and other science fields–including medicine–extracting insight from data using machine learning and natural language processing techniques.
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Jamshid Sourati
Dr. Sourati’s main research interests revolve around developing and deploying machine learning and AI techniques to model and analyze the flow of knowledge and discoveries in science and technology. Prior to joining DePaul, he worked in the Harvard Medical School’s Computer Radiology Lab and was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Chicago, applying learning based tools to model the flow of collective knowledge in social processes.
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Bamshad Mobasher
Dr. Mobasher is the director of the Center for Web Intelligence and the co-founder of the Center for Data Science at DePaul. His general research areas include artificial intelligence and machine learning. In particular, Dr. Mobasher is considered one of the leading authorities in Web mining, Web personalization, and recommender systems.
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DePaul CDM Faculty Casey Bennett
Casey Bennett
Dr. Bennett’s work focuses on artificial intelligence in healthcare, including the areas of robotics, human-robot interaction, machine learning, internet-of-things, clinical decision support, and personalized medicine. He has over 20 years’ experience in data science, machine learning, and analytics and was formerly a data scientist at several major healthcare organizations.
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Health Workers Boost AI Predictions
In a new study using predictive AI models, DePaul computer scientist Roselyne Tchoua finds a human element could prevent at-risk patients from falling through the cracks.
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Center for Data Science
DePaul CDS fosters collaborations with industry and nonprofits to conduct joint analytics projects, providing data science master’s students with real-world problem-solving experience in data science.
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DePaul Data Science Group
Our data science group connects students with industry professionals, alumni, and faculty through workshops, panel discussions, skill trainings, and hackathons.
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Online Learning
This degree can be completed entirely online. One hundred percent of the program’s lectures—from audio and video to whiteboard writing and supplemental materials—are captured and available online.
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Focus on Real Data
Students work on real-world applications to gain experience in analyzing complex data sets. Recently, data science students and faculty collaborated with the Chicago Department of Public Health to develop a program that narrowed the “unknown” race data gap in COVID-19 tests from 47% to 11%.
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The Visual Informatics and Data Analytics Group
The Medical Informatics Lab and the Intelligent Multimedia Processing Lab house state-of-the-art research combining theory and experimental methodologies to provide novel solutions to challenging data problems.
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