Online Programs and Short Courses

In addition to IDSS’s MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science and the Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions course, IDSS offers other online programs, and IDSS faculty sometimes offer short courses (remote or on-campus), through MIT Professional Education.

Online Programs

Applied Data Science Program

Upgrade your data analytics skills with this 12-week live virtual program offered in collaboration with Great Learning, an online education service provider and IDSS alliance member. Learn the theory and applications of supervised and unsupervised learning, time-series analysis, neural networks, recommendation engines, regression, and computer vision — to name a few.

Upon successful fulfillment of requirements, you will receive a certificate of completion from MIT Professional Education.

No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions

Extract more value from your data by learning to translate business questions into specific analyses and execute them within an analytics platform. In this 12-week online course taught by IDSS faculty, you will acquire the analytics and AI tools you need to build predictive machine learning models in no-code environments and make data science more accessible within your organization.

Upon successful fulfillment of requirements, you will receive a certificate of completion from MIT Professional Education.

Short Courses

Short courses are typically 2-5 days of accelerated learning, either on campus or remotely, offered through MIT Professional Education. See the complete list of available short courses.


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