Master of Data Analytics

About

The Master of Data Analytics equips professionals with advanced skills in statistical modeling, machine learning, data visualization, and business intelligence. It’s designed for those who want to lead data-driven decision-making across industries like finance, healthcare, tech, and government. Graduates are highly sought after for their ability to turn raw data into strategic insights. Data analysis is one of the fastest emerging professions in Canada. With the Master of Data Analytics, you’ll graduate ready to step into a high-demand career as a big data professional. The foundation for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics lies in a set of tools and techniques from Statistics and Computer Science, as well as from the intersection of these two fields. The Master of Data Analytics (MDA), a one-year professional science master's program, equips our students with a set of highly sought-after, interdisciplinary technical data analytics skills, approaches and experiences and prepares them for an analytics-focused career. As businesses increasingly turn to machine learning to analyze vast amounts of data, the demand for skilled data analysts who can work with these algorithms is growing. 

Career Path

Graduate careers include Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer, Business Intelligence Analyst, Statistician, Quantitative Analyst, AI/ML Researcher, Data Science Consultant,Big Data Architect, Operations Research Analyst, Decision Scientist, Analytics Manager, Data Strategy Lead, Supply Chain Analyst, Risk Analyst, Marketing Data Analyst, Financial Data Analyst, Cybersecurity Analyst (Data Focus), Healthcare Data Analyst, Sports Performance Analyst, Environmental Data Scientist, NLP Engineer (Natural Language Processing), Gernment Policy Analyst (Data-Driven), Fraud Detection Specialist.