RPI Data Analytics. IBM-Supported Master’s Program Prepares Students for Big Data and Analytics Jobs To prepare students and career professionals for the expanding scope of careers requiring Big Data and analytics skills, IBM and Rensselaer are combining forces to offer a new, one-year Lally School of Management and Technology graduate degree program in fall 2013: the Master of Science in Business Analytics. Nearly two million information technology jobs will be created by 2015 in the U.S. to support Big Data, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
Analytics skills will be a key differentiator for candidates seeking to fill those jobs. The news underscores IBM’s efforts to help students and career professionals enter and succeed in the growing, high-demand analytics workforce. The new Master of Science in Business Analytics degree is a one-year, 30-credit graduate program offered by the Lally School. See related story. College Confidential. ACADEMIC ROOM. Lumina Foundation. Laureate Int. Universities. HE International Trends. In honor of the New Year, we wanted to put forward five trends that we think will affect international branch campuses in 2013. As is always the case with predictions, we run the risk of being completely wrong. A year from now we will revisit this list to see how we did. In the meantime, feel free to add your own predictions—and critiques—in the comments. And we wish everyone a very happy 2013! Greater push-back from home campuses. In 2012, Yale faculty members expressed their displeasure about the partnership their president announced with the National University of Singapore to build a liberal-arts college in the island nation.
A similar scenario is unfolding at New York University. These two events are evidence that faculty members no longer see cross-border efforts as peripheral activities and won’t be placated by promises of enhanced prestige for the institution and vague assertions of revenue development. A shift from expansion to quality. Global competition to be education hubs. DELTAK. Shanghai Ranking 2012.