The Data Science and Engineering programs offered at the University of Maine are intended to meet the growing demand for graduates with core skills in managing and analyzing complex data and analytics challenges. The graduate programs provide a pathway for students from diverse fields to transition to multiple data science and engineering career paths by providing them with core graduate-level courses across the entire spectrum of the data lifecycle.

In support of the interdisciplinary spirit of data science and engineering, the program is designed to accommodate students from a wide range of undergraduate degrees or other graduate degree backgrounds with options for specialization in different domains. A collection of courses with a variety of in-class and online options support students in residence as well as meet the needs of people currently in the workforce or who are otherwise place-bound and need training or retraining in the area of Data Science and Engineering.

Program Highlights

The programs draw upon faculty and courses from throughout the University and other University of Maine System campuses
Students may focus solely on the Data Science and Engineering core or tailor the degree to emphasize one or domain specializations

Theme areas

Data collection technologies
Data representation and management
Data analytics
Data visualization and human-centered computing
Data security, preservation, and reuse

Domain specializations

Spatial informatics
Bioinformatics/biomedicine
Business information
Social and behavioral data science
Engineering analytics

The 15 credit graduate certificate can be completed online or on-campus and is an option for those unsure about committing to a master’s degree. Courses taken in the certificate can be used toward the master’s degree.