The amount of data readily available in today’s world is astounding. But data without context lacks meaning. In the Bachelor of Science in Applied Analytics program at IIT, you’ll learn how to collect, curate and analyze data, as well as how to construct a story outlining the major implications of your data samples for a range of audiences, from the general public to business leaders. The McKinsey Global Institute, a renowned business and economic research group, even put out a report titled “Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity” outlining the growth potential of this field. The Lewis College Applied Analytics program prepares students to pursue these new careers and provides expertise in communicating data and understanding human behavior that are lacking from analytics-like programs housed in areas of computer science and statistics.

Analytics and data science are lucrative fields with thousands of job openings yearly in such fields as data science, market analysis, business analysis, bioinformatics, psychometrics, public relations, or research in one of these fields. You will also be prepared to continue on to graduate school in a number of fields.