NJIT offers Online Graduate Certificate in Data Mining

The online data mining graduate certificate program prepares students for our world of information economy where data is being generated in every aspect imaginable. Every time you swipe your card at the grocery store or are on Facebook or LinkedIn, data are being extracted and downloaded into a database. Today more than any time in history, organizations are storing, processing and data mining this information for marketing, advertising, eCommerce, healthcare and supply chain processes. The results are extracting actual information for companies to draw on to increase productivity and efficiency.

NJIT' s Online data mining graduate certificate classes teach the mathematical methods in understanding data mining. Emphasis is on large-scale databases as a source of knowledge generation and competitive advantage within many areas of business.

What will you learn?

• The fundamentals of relational database technology, concurrency, and recovery
• Methods of database design and conceptual modeling
• The principles of information-retrieval system design
• Techniques essential for building text databases, document-processing systems, office automation systems, and other advanced information management systems
• And more in two elective courses, each worth 3 graduate credits.

• 12 credits - four classes
• One year to complete (on average)
• Study is fully online, or in a classroom. You can mix and match between online and on-campus classes too.
• The graduate certificate is a stand-alone credential that can lead to a corresponding - NJIT master's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems