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Science Training and Research to Inform Decisions Advanced Certificate

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to effectively communicate their science to diverse audiences, including peers, professors, employers, policy makers, and various other stakeholders.

2. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to develop data visualization skills, including; an understanding of the role of visual perception, cognition, and the sense making process in human understanding of visual data, an ability to apply techniques from data mining, data science, machine learning, computer graphics, and information visualization to construct visual presentations of data; and finally, an ability to build visual analytics pipelines that enable humans to interactively reason with data and gain insight.

3. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to understand and utilize decision support systems ranging from decision making in public health, natural resource management, and climate adaptation as well as explore different career paths and work environments involved in scientific decision making.

4. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to understand basic data analytics. At the completion of the certificate, students should be able to use data and tools to make informed decisions.

SUCCESS RATES

57.1%

4-year graduation rate

2.51

Avg. years to degree

MEDIAN EARNINGS

N/A

10 years after graduation

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5 years after graduation

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1 year after graduation

PLACEMENT2 years after graduation

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Working in New York

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Continuing Education

Notes

Completion rates: the percent of students entering the certificate program any time during the academic year and completing by May 31 four years later. Methodology adheres to guidelines from the AAU Data Exchange doctoral completion rates and means that spring entrants have less time to complete. Average of ten most recent reporting years (2014-15 through 2023-24). Years to certificate: the average number of years it takes a student to complete the selected program. Average of the three most recent completion years (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23). Earnings: SUNY Employment Outcomes Dashboard. Data Forthcoming. Working in NY State: SUNY Employment Outcomes Dashboard. Data Forthcoming.