Middle Tennessee State University is exploring the creation of a new bachelor of science degree in data science, the institutionâs Board of Trustees learned at its quarterly meeting last week.
Pam Wright, chair of the boardâs Academic Affairs, Student Life and Athletics Committee, told trustees of the administrationâs intent to submit letters of notification to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission for the new degree, pending results of ongoing feasibility studies.
MTSU in May announced the creation of a Data Science Institute, led by Charlie Apigian, a professor of information systems and analytics in MTSUâs Jones College of Business, to promote funded interdisciplinary research and develop public and private collaborations around the emerging field of âbig data.â
The degree would build upon many of the attributes of the new institute, which now seeks ways to collect, store and analyze raw data from multiple sources and study it to determine ways to increase efficiency, analyze problems and make better decisions.
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