Data Science & Analytics
Where are the Canadian Post-secondary Programs?
Insights
Post-secondary Programs
- numerous programs have emerged in Canada
- 89 identified as of Jun 2019
- more than 40 universities & institutes
- considerable variation in the naming and content
Program Levels
- 5 levels of programs identified: Certificate, Diploma, Bachelors, Masters, PhD
- Certificates are the most common (usually 4 courses)
- Masters degrees are the 2nd most common (usually requires a bachelors for entry)
Canadian Provinces
- 7 provinces have programs
- provinces with the most programs: ON, AB, QC, BC
- no programs identified in SK, MB, NL
- program level profiles change by province
Regional Snapshots
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Program Examples - British Columbia
BC - Data Science and Analytics Program Canada
Program Examples - Alberta
AB - Data Science and Analytics Program Canada
Program Examples - Ontario
ON - Data Science and Analytics Program Canada
Program Examples - Quebec
QC - Data Science and Analytics Program Canada
Program Examples - Atlantic Canada
NB, NS, PE, NL - Data Science and Analytics Program Canada
approach
- Data science and analytics skills are crucial in a digital economy. Canada needs to foster those skills in order to be competitive.
- We at Fuzeium wanted to better understand where those skills are being actively developed and promoted.
- The emergence of words in education program-titles can suggest what is in demand for a given region--from both the employers and the students' perspective.
- The presence of a program can also suggest, which schools have the wherewithal to meet that demand.
- Our analysis (for beta v7 June 2019) focused on program titles making reference to: "Data", "Data Science", "Analytics", "Machine Learning".
- We gathered data from numerous public web sites. Then it was analyzed with Microsoft Power BI.
- The results are publicly available.
- Disclaimer: We recognize that people can enter the fields of Data Science & Analytics, including AI, from many other post-secondary programs. Traditional program titles may not reference the keywords above, but the programs produce critical people & skills in engineering, science, maths, medicine, computing, business, economics, visual arts etc.
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