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Data Science and Engineering Minor

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute · Troy, NY

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Program
Award
Minor
Catalog edition
Rensselaer Catalog 2026-2027
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering offers a minor in Data Science and Engineering (DSCE) for undergraduates (minimum of 4 classes required). The minor contributes to students’ ability to organize, analyze and act upon data, particularly for data associated with engineered systems.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
194824
CourseShelf checklist
CK_194824_43d5c37f
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Required courses for the DSCE Minor are

3 items
  1. ISYE 4360
    Applied Data Science
    Not resolved to a course
    or: ISYE 4370 - Engineering Data Analytics
    4
  2. and
    Not resolved to a course
  3. ISYE 4330
    Design of Experiments
    Not resolved to a course
    3

Students must also take a total of at least two courses from either or both of the following areas

0 items

    Data Quality and Architectures

    7 items
    1. CSCI 4370
      Data and Society
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    2. CSCI 4380
      Database Systems
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    3. CSCI 4390
      Data Mining
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    4. ISYE 2530
      Information and Data Systems
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    5. ITWS 4400
      X-Informatics
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    6. MATP 4400
      Introduction to Data Mathematics
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    7. ITWS 4350
      Data Science
      Not resolved to a course
      or: CSCI 4350 - Data Science
      3

    Inference and Learning

    12 items
    1. BIOL 4200
      Biostatistics
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    2. BMED 4470
      Biostatistics for Life Science Applications
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    3. BMED 4480
      Biomedical Data Science
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    4. CSCI 4250
      Frontiers of Network Science
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    5. ECON 4570
      Econometrics
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    6. ISYE 4140
      Statistical Analysis
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    7. ISYE 4260
      Human Performance Modeling and Support
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    8. ISYE 4350
      Systems Engineering and Social Media
      Not resolved to a course
      3
    9. PSYC 4310
      Research Methods and Statistics II
      Not resolved to a course
      4
    10. Other courses are subject to ISE Department approval. Students pursuing this minor must satisfy the prerequisites as needed, which may involve additional course work.
      Not resolved to a course
    11. *IME Majors may not use this course as a Technical Elective
      Not resolved to a course
    12. **IME Majors may not use this course for the Minor
      Not resolved to a course
    Source. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, catalog Rensselaer Catalog 2026-2027 — https://catalog.rpi.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=34&poid=10203&returnto=938. Captured page pages/0249.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.