Applications for the Fall 2026 Term are due by August 1!
**NEW FOR FALL 2026**
The program’s name will change to the AI and Data Science Graduate Certificate Program.
Note: New academic requirements are in effect for students who are accepted to the program after Dec. 1, 2025. Students who have already enrolled in the program by Dec 1. 2025 will still follow the previous requirements.
The Graduate Data Science Certificate Program is open to all graduate students at the University of Michigan. The goal of the program is to improve graduate students’ research skills by exposing students to the foundations of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) and allowing them to gain basic data science skills that can be applied to a wide range of fields of graduate research. This program is the starting point of a student’s journey to gain data science and AI expertise.
The program provides interactive data and AI-centered training and involves 9 credits of courses and 3 credits of experiential training that requires a poster presentation or written report on data analytics. The program is open for enrollment in both fall and winter semesters. U-M graduate students from any field are eligible to enroll.
Students are encouraged to take classes outside their own core degree program/department. Completion of the program can be done in 2-4 semesters; but the students may complete the program any time before they graduate from U-M. The Graduate Data Science Certificate Program aims to provide key experiences with courses in:
- Foundations: Understanding of core data science principles, assumptions & applications
- Applications: Hands-on experience with modeling tools and technology using real data
- Electives: Courses might have a narrow scope but go deeper on a topic of special interest (Alternatively, students may take another Foundations or Applications course)
Program Committee
Eunshin Byon
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, College of Engineering
Kevyn Collins-Thompson
Associate Professor of Information, School of Information
Nicholas Henriksen
Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Elle O’Brien
Graduate Data Science Certificate Program Director
Lecturer IV in Information and Research Investigator, School of Information
Alexander Rodríguez
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Maureen Sartor
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Medical School
Kerby Shedden
Associate Chair and Professor of Statistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Tiantian Yang
Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
MIDAS Certificate Assistant
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