India’s leading multidisciplinary and research-based university, Shiv Nadar University launched a new online certificate program in Data Sciences and Analytics for Business (DSAB). The program aims to provide hands-on-training to equip students with the relevant domain knowledge and the technical skills to help companies solve for business challenges using insights from data. This unique and intensive 14-week program, which will be delivered online, will commence from the 3rd week of July, 2020.
Students with a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent or enrolled in any recognised undergraduate degree program and having Mathematics in 10+2 board can apply for the program. Candidates will also have to qualify a personal interview for final selection. Classes for the program will be conducted online with ample hands-on practice in a simulated environment. The program will span over 12 weeks with approximately nine hours of contact tutorials spread across three sessions every week. The DSAB program will cover essential concepts of statistics and econometrics required for modelling, exploratory data analysis and data manipulation by using different tools, predictive modelling, machine learning, prescriptive modelling, text mining and neural networks. Noteworthy, SNU is recognized as an Institution of eminence (IoE) by the Government of India. It has partnered with Jigsaw Academy, India’s leading globally recognized learning company in the field of data sciences and business analytics, to deliver select content elements for this course.
