Master’s in Data Science Programs in New Hampshire

Granite Staters searching for a data science program shouldn’t take New Hampshire (NH) for granted. There is a variety of research and academic activity in the discipline. We’ll explore the emerging tech scene, report back on jobs and professional communities, and even highlight online options.

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Syracuse University

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Master of Science in Applied Data Science

Syracuse University’s online Master of Science in Data Science can be completed in as few as 18 months.

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Southern Methodist University

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Master of Science in Data Science

Earn your MS in Data Science at SMU, where you can specialize in Machine Learning or Business Analytics, and complete in as few as 20 months.

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University of California, Berkeley

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Master of Information and Data Science

Earn your Master’s in Data Science online from UC Berkeley in as few as 12 months.

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Syracuse University

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Master of Science in Business Analytics

Looking to become a data-savvy leader? Earn your online Master of Science in Business Analytics from Syracuse University.

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Studying Data Science in New Hampshire

In 2017, NH EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) produced the New Hampshire University Research & Industry Plan. That plan identified three areas in which New Hampshire universities could leverage existing industries and strengthen them: advanced manufacturing, information systems and biosciences. The information systems component specifically addresses machine learning and data analytics, while the biosciences area looks to biotech. All of that is good news for data science students and professors hoping to acquire research funding.

Data Science Research & Initiatives at New Hampshire Universities

Health informatics is featured in graduate level studies at Dartmouth College and University of New Hampshire (UNH). For those outside the health field, Southern New Hampshire University maintains its business school roots, and UNH, as the state’s flagship public university, maintains a diverse set of programs and research interests.

  • The UNH Connectivity Research Center develops cutting-edge communications technology. Its first major project is the Smart Cities Initiative; one of the initiative’s primary goals is using transportation data to predict traffic and pedestrian patterns, helping people move about cities more efficiently.
  • UNH also has a Bioinformatics Core facility that receives research funding from New Hampshire INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence). The school’s Hubbard Center for Genome Studies is then able to provide internal and external researchers with access to data and expensive lab equipment.
  • UNH conducts some bioinformatics work, but Dartmouth College has a whole Department of Biomedical Data Science, complete with several laboratories, including the Microbiome Mediation Modeling Lab, the Social Computing & Health Informatics Lab, and the Statistical Genetics Laboratory. The researchers within these labs have links to many Dartmouth-based centers and institutes, including the Bioinformatics Service Center, which runs clinical trials and maintains research databases on a number of diseases, and the Biomedical Data Science (BMDS) Research Software, a team of data scientists that consults on academic research across Dartmouth’s health sciences ecosystem.

Online Data Science Programs in New Hampshire

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a player in New Hampshire online education. There is also a publicly funded University of New Hampshire, which runs an online certificate program. Students looking for a data science degree with a healthcare focus can turn to a third institution, New England College.

Online Graduate Certificates in Data Science

University of New Hampshire’s Online Graduate Certificate in Data Science is geared toward working professionals who hold any sort of bachelor’s degree but have experience in a quantitative field. The four-course program quickly gets technical, requiring students to get comfortable with statistical modeling and teaching them how to program so they can mine data. It’s particularly useful for aspiring business analysts, marketers and researchers, not to mention computer scientists looking for a new skill set.

Online Master’s Degrees in Data Science

Southern New Hampshire University offers a slew of online data science programs. The standard is its MS in Data Analytics, a program that blends the technical and managerial realities of collecting and analyzing big data to make organizational improvements. Like all SNHU programs, it concludes with a synthesizing capstone project. SNHU’s MBA in Business Intelligence features some crossover but its analytics features are sprinkled in as individual courses rather than integrated into the traditional MBA curriculum of marketing, finance and management techniques. For meatier data, you might turn to the MS in Marketing with a Marketing Research and Analytics concentration. Or you can crank up the technical material even further and enroll in SNHU’s MS in Information Technology-Data Analytics. That program is aimed at current IT pros who want to branch into big data while gaining the breadth of knowledge necessary to manage an IT department.

Healthcare administrators, meanwhile, can choose between a couple of SNHU degrees to propel their career. The MBA in Healthcare Informatics is a traditional program with just a sprinkling of IT and health-themed coursework. The International MBA in Healthcare Informatics does the same but with a multinational focus attractive for people working in international companies. For a more balanced blend of informatics and business coursework, look to New England College’s MBA with a concentration in Health Informatics. It admits both patient-focused health workers and IT pros trying to move up the career ladder.

Data Science Bootcamps in New Hampshire

If earning a master’s in data science just isn’t in the cards for you, you may want to consider a data science or data analytics bootcamp in New Hampshire. Data science or data analytics bootcamps are relatively short educational programs intended to quickly introduce students to the fields, often via hands-on practice. Some bootcamps in New Hampshire are dedicated solely to data science, the study of how knowledge is generally derived from raw data, or data analytics, the processes by which specific insights can be drawn, but other bootcamps combine study of the two. Use our guides to learn more about whether a data science bootcamps or data analytics bootcamps may be right for you.

Data Science Events in New Hampshire

Data Science Meetups & Communities in New Hampshire

New Hampshire is fairly small, but it’s well-connected to other New England states, so you may want to look for groups that hold events across the region, such as the Insights Association New England Chapter and the New England Nursing Informatics Consortium (NENIC). The following, however, stick to Manchester, Nashua and Concord:

  1. Database Developer Analytics with DB2 LUW: This group for professional data users in Manchester, established in 2017, covers IBM’s DB2 database software and its applications for Linux, Unix and Windows (LUW). No strict agenda exists, but expect discussions of how to integrate different programming languages, such as R and Python, into the software, with a heavy emphasis on one of IBM’s strengths: machine learning.
  2. NH Data Science Meetup (Manchester): Manchester’s other group for data junkies covers a broader range of topics but skews toward participants well-versed in computer science. Past speakers have discussed leveraging machine learning in healthcare settings, using geospatial tools in Python, and analyzing results to rank college sports teams.
  3. Science Cafe New Hampshire: Science Cafe meets at a Nashua pub the second Wednesday of the month before coming to a Concord sports bar the fourth Wednesday of the month. Over food and drinks, attendees get two hours worth of presentations on everything from wine chemistry to composting, with software developers and university mathematicians and economists showing up often to talk about big data, polling, and machine learning algorithms.

Data Science Conferences & Workshops in New Hampshire

If you want a huge conference dedicated to data science, take the train to Boston. Below are a couple of niche conferences that alight in the Granite State every few years:

  1. NEDRA Annual Conference: The New England Development Research Association (NEDRA), a local chapter of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA), is a group of fundraisers constantly looking for new ways to harness data and increase donations. Though NEDRA is based in Massachusetts, its two-day annual conference is sometimes held in New Hampshire. The event welcomes presentations on data-driven wealth analysis, R-based prospect research tools, and recent trends in charitable giving.
  2. Rapid Insight Conference: Rapid Insight is an analytics company based in Conway, New Hampshire, that started holding a conference for users out of its office years ago. The event has since grown to a three-day affair that touches down across New England but frequently comes back to New Hampshire. The speakers are strictly academics from around the country, which makes sense: Rapid Insight conducts analytics services primarily for universities.

Data Science Jobs in New Hampshire

Let’s look back at the growth areas identified in the New Hampshire University Research & Industry Plan. The first was advanced manufacturing – essentially taking the Granite State’s traditional manufacturing base and updating it for 21st century products. While data scientists may have trouble breaking into that sector, opportunities are available in the other two sectors: information systems and biosciences. Data analysts may find opportunities at Liberty Mutual, a Boston insurer with offices in Portsmouth and Dover.

The tech focus within the state has allowed a host of small to midsize businesses to pop up from Nashua to Conway. Nashua startup Forcivity creates analytic applications for use within Salesforce. To the northeast, Dover’s Athenium predicts the effects of climate on crops and property so that insurers and business managers can take appropriate risks. And Rapid Insight in Conway has its own predictive modeling software, though it primarily focuses on higher education markers such as student retention.

Data Scientist Salaries in New Hampshire

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Computer and Information Research Scientists (includes data scientists), took home an average of $126,830 in 2020. The top 10% of jobs paid $194,430.

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