Jersey City, N.J. – March 30, 2016 – Saint Peter’s University today announced that it has joined eight leading academic institutions from the state of New Jersey as the latest member of the New Jersey Big Data Alliance (NJBDA). The NJBDA is an unprecedented higher education alliance, designed to spark collaboration among New Jersey government, academia and industry, regarding the growing field of Big Data and data analytics. The members of the NJBDA include Kean University, Montclair State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Rowan University, Stockton University, Rutgers University and Stevens Institute of Technology.
In 2014, the NJBDA was officially designated as the State’s advanced cyberinfrastructure consortium. Major initiatives of the consortium include the creation of joint educational programs, inter-university research collaborations, the identification of challenges that Big Data poses and the development of events that promote Big Data and analytics education, among others.
Saint Peter’s University launched a master’s program in data science with a concentration in business analytics in the Fall of 2014. The program was designed by academic and industry leaders to align with the “best of industry practice” in Big Data concepts utilized by the Oracle Corporation. The growing program was developed to help meet the pronounced and urgent need for data scientists and analytics talent.
“We have seen, first-hand, the growing demand in the field of Big Data given the interest in our program and the job growth in the market in almost every major industry,” said Sylvain Jaume, Ph.D., director of the data science and business analytics program at Saint Peter’s University. “We take great pride in our membership in the NJBDA as we hope to have an influential role in putting New Jersey on a path to becoming a national leader in Big Data and business analytics.”
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