Big Data
How USF grads improve education, health care, and business by uncovering data's hidden stories.
Careers and Employment
Students graduating from the program are embedded in the world's largest concentration of technology companies. Equipped with the techniques and skills necessary for data-driven decision making, our graduates are prepared for careers in a wide variety of fields with rapidly growing demand for knowledgeable and well-educated data scientists, engineers, and analysts.
Employment Offers
92% of all MSDS graduates received a full time offer of employment within three months of graduation
98% of graduates of cohorts 1-4 received a full time offer of employment within three months of graduation.
97% of all graduates of our 2017 cohort have now received a full time offer of employment.
Salaries
- $110,000 - Median Base Salary
- $180,000 - Maximum Base Salary
- $115,000 - Median International Student Base Salary
- $110,000- Median Female Base Salary
- $115,000 - Median Bay Area Base Salary
| Class of 2017 Select Job Titles | |
| Data Scientist Data Engineer Data Analyst Senior Data Scientist Machine Learning Engineer Software Engineer |
Data Ops Engineer Data Mining Engineer Quantitative Analyst Risk Strategy Analyst Measurement Scientist Business Intelligence Analyst |
| Most Common Job Title: Data Scientist (46%) Second Most Common Job Title: Machine Learning Engineer/Contractor/Developer (10%) |
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| Class of 2017 Employers | |
| Aetna AirBnB Amazon Amazon Web Services Ancestry Baidu Barracuda Breather Children's Hospital Los Angeles Chinese Community Health Care Association Cisco Current, Powered by GE Dictionary.com DISH Network Epsilon Esurance Eventbrite FLYR GE Digital Glidewell Laboratories Glint Hearts & Science Houzz Indeed Intuit Corp. |
Ipsy Lawfty LexisNexis Risk Solutions McKinsey & Company Metromile NBC Universal OfferUp Paypal Pi Radius Intelligence Reputation.com Skillz Smith & Associates Soteria Intelligence Tapjoy Tealium Trulia Uber UC Berkeley UCSF University of Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics, Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing Vida Health Vungle Walmart E-Commerce |
Location
73% of 2017 graduates remained in the Bay Area.
| 2017 Graduate Locations Outside Bay Area | |
| Austin Beijing, China Houston Los Angeles New York |
Phoenix San Diego São Paulo, Brazil Seattle Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
Contact Info
MS in Data Science
Kirsten Keihl, Assistant Director
USF Downtown Campus, 101 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
info@datascience.usfca.edu
(415) 422-2966