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Data Science is an interdisciplinary field of study about methods and systems to extract knowledge or insights from large quantities of data coming in various forms. The Bachelor of Science in Data Science is designed for students interested in developing expertise in data science.

Data Science students must select one of the following concentrations:

Computation and Modeling
Computational Analytics
Genomics and Bioinformatics

The Concentration in Genomics and Bioinformatics provides a strong background in mathematics, computational thinking and biological data analysis, and will enable students to analyze large quantities of data to discover new knowledge and facilitate decision making. This specialization is intended for students interested in biology, ecology, evolution, human health and disease, and precision medicine. Over the past decade, the emergence of next-generation sequencing technologies has facilitated the rapid growth of genomic data; however, undergraduate training in big data management, big data processing and big data analysis has not kept up with this rapid growth in large-scale biological data generation.