Career Success

Data Scientist was named the #1 job in Glassdoor's "50 Best Jobs in America for 2019." Reports like this confirm that knowledge of data science is in high demand, and positions such as data scientist and data analyst are playing vital roles in emerging industries in the technology world.

Where can your Champlain Data Science degree take you?

With a degree in Data Science from Champlain College, you'll be capable of working with large structured and unstructured data sets and finding insights that will influence business decisions—particularly for platforms such as websites, social media, and mobile devices. 

Our Data Science program will prepare you to be a standout candidate for data positions across a variety of industries—in public, private, and nonprofit organizations. You can explore careers in lucrative positions such as:

  • data analyst
  • data architect
  • artificial intelligence (AI) specialist
  • business analyst
  • data engineer
  • data scientist

Maybe you want to land a job at Netflix or work on world health projects and public safety, predict earthquakes, improve security systems, or build automation rules for robots. Our Data Science program will prepare you to be a distinguished candidate for these big data positions across a variety of industries. There's a world of opportunity ahead.

Champlain Data Science Graduates Are Ready

In addition to the extensive career-focused programs and support offered College-wide, each of Champlain's career-focused majors offers learning opportunities and programs that help our students create highly marketable résumés. Highlights include:

  • All members of the Data Science faculty are professionals in their field, which is an essential factor in our students getting the most cutting-edge education in the field.
  • The Data Science major is an intense and challenging degree built on a foundation of basic business concepts, such as economics, finance, marketing, and statistics. With this base, students then explore more advanced programming languages and data analysis.
  • Data Science students typically take at least one internship over the course of their program, which gives them stellar résumé listings and recommendations.

The change to "Data Science" will be effective as of Fall 2020.

Champlain College Class of 2019 Joins the Workforce 

Champlain's Career Collaborative team surveys alumni six months after graduation to find out how job searches are going. The College-wide results below are based on an outstanding 91% response rate—significantly higher than most post-graduation college surveys.

  • 91% are either employed or continuing their education within six months after graduating.
  • 88% of the graduates who are employed indicated that their jobs are related to their career goals.
  • 89% also indicated that they had completed one or more internships or other experiential learning opportunities before graduation.

The Results Are Clear

Our graduates are thriving; their Champlain education prepared them with real-world experience that sets them apart in their field.