Regents approve new undergraduate major in Data Science
The UW System Board of Regents approved a new data science major within the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences, opening the door for University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduates to learn to apply computational, statistical, and mathematical methods to data in order to solve real-world problems. Students may immediately begin taking courses that will count toward the new degree, which students will be able to declare beginning in fall 2020.
Students majoring in data science will learn to apply computational, statistical, and mathematical methods to data in order to solve real-world problems.