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Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Focuses on gathering, managing and analyzing big data analytics to understand customers, develop new products, cut operational costs and make important financial decisions.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Big Data Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Mathematical properties and usage of database programming languages.
- Methods of database design, conceptual modeling and physical storage for big data sets.
- Fundamental notions of concurrency control and recovery in database systems.
- Goal tree search, logic, and deduction, uncertainty, fuzzy logic, knowledge representations, machine learning, vision and action planning.
- Methods for association and dependency analysis, classification and prediction, and clustering analysis.
- Current trends in data mining overall as well as for scientific, medical and engineering applications.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
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Salaries
$92,300
Starting Salary, NJIT Average
$139,400
Mid-Career Salary, National Average
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Career Prospects
Where do Computer Science majors work?
Common Job Titles
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Software Developer
- Data Engineer
- Cybersecurity Architect/Consultant
- Cloud Big Data Engineer
Top Employers
- Bank of America
- Verizon
- Lockheed Martin
- Microsoft Corporation
- Colgate-Palmolive
What our students are saying
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I am gaining an excellent education at NJIT that is preparing me for my goals as a researcher in academia. "JonPierre Grajales -
The atmosphere at NJIT fostered my growth as a female in computing."Krupali Patel -
I became an advocate for women in computer science while studying at NJIT."Jinisha Patel
