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Prepare for a new role — or advance in your current career — with the skills you’ll gain in grant writing, community advocacy, and digital communication.
Today’s leaders know that data is not an asset until it is analyzed and translated into the language of the stakeholder.
Agnes Scott’s Data Analysis graduate certificate prepares students to collect, analyze, interpret, and present data. Students will obtain hands-on experience processing and analyzing data acquired by different research methods in order to gain critical insights that can impact public discourse and drive policy and decision making.
This stackable 12-credit certificate provides you with a structured and meaningful progression through your course of study. You will also receive an added credential that prepares you to effectively pursue and advance your career in the area of Strategic Communication.
Drawing on Agnes Scott’s liberal arts tradition, the certificate enriches students’ strategic communication skills by introducing them to qualitative and quantitative data analysis, management, and visualization. As you pursue this added credential, you will learn to:
The Data Analysis Certificate prepares students to use established and emerging methods to gather information required for programmatic decision-making and to engage with the most pressing challenges of their time.
"I saw the opportunity to learn how to create community impact. It has been a dream of mine to be able to reach masses and facilitate projects on many different levels. My experience has been incredibly rewarding and I now feel equipped to be an agent of change.” - Jordan Paster, MS’23
Using a range of presentation skills and techniques, including data visualization, students will also learn how to effectively communicate the results of their analyses and present complex ideas rapidly and intuitively to diverse audiences.
