Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Big Data

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The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate program in Big Data provides students with the essential skills of managing large volumes of data and, through methodological approaches and software applications, making data-intensive computing and business decisions. This program serves students with a solid quantitative background (i.e., science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and business) and also entry to senior-level professionals whose job duty requires performing data analysis, visualization, and prediction.

Admission Requirements

A baccalaureate degree with 2.5 or higher GPA. Or Professionals with at least 4 years of IT and its related industry
Background in intermediate-level management information systems (CIS 3010 ), which includes fundamental knowledge of SQL and programming.

Certificate Requirements:

Complete 12 units of the required courses
A 3.0 GPA is required to receive the certificate

Notice to Students Regarding Professional Licensure and Certification

Required Courses (12 units)

CIS 5270 - Business Intelligence (3)
CIS 5430 - Databases and Data Warehousing (3)
CIS 5560 - Introduction to Big Data Science (3)
and select one course:
CIS 4560 - Introduction to Big Data (3)
CIS 5910 - Introduction to Big Data Analysis and Development (3)

U.S Department of Education Gainful Employment Disclosure

U.S Department of Education Gainful Employment Disclosure

Program: Certificate Program in Big Data Analytics
Occupations that this certificate program prepares students to enter:

15-1111.00	Computer and Information Research Scientists https://www.onetonline.org/find/match/1/15-1111.00?s=data%20scientist
15-1121.00	Computer Systems Analysts https://www.onetonline.org/find/match/12/15-1121.00?s=data%20scientist
19-1029.01	Bioinformatics Scientists https://www.onetonline.org/find/match/4/19-1029.01?s=data%20scientist
15-1121.00	Computer Systems Analysts https://www.onetonline.org/find/match/12/15-1121.00?s=data%20scientist
15-1133.00	Software Developers, Systems Software https://www.onetonline.org/find/match/16/15-1133.00?s=data%20scientist
15-1141.00	Database Administrators https://www.onetonline.org/find/match/18/15-1141.00?s=data%20scientist
15-1199.06	Database Architects https://www.onetonline.org/find/match/19/15-1199.06?s=data%20scientist

On-time graduation rate for students completing this program: 80%
Cost of Attendance for the entire normal duration of this certificate program:

Tuition and fees: Based on Fall 2016 at http://www.calstatela.edu/sfinserv/fall-semester-2016-tuition-and-fees

Fall 2016 Tuition and Fees	0-6 units	6.1 units or more
Graduate/BP Total	$2,394.44	$3,810.44

Books and supplies:

Median loan debt incurred by students who completed this program:

2. The job placement rate for students completing the program:

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Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Big Data

Required Courses (12 units)

U.S Department of Education Gainful Employment Disclosure