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The most afford­able data sci­ence degree pro­gram is $161 per cred­it hour, at Great Basin Col­lege, which is 72% low­er than the nation­al aver­age. The aver­age cost per cred­it in col­lege was most recent­ly report­ed as $594, and the aver­age cost of a bach­e­lor’s degree varies great­ly. The aver­age price for an in-state stu­dent at a pub­lic uni­ver­si­ty is just under $10,000, where­as the cost for an out-of-state stu­dent at the same school can be well over $25,000. Col­lege tuition has dras­ti­cal­ly increased over the past sev­er­al decades, so it is becom­ing more and more impor­tant to find afford­able options for edu­ca­tion while retain­ing quality.

With some things, peo­ple have been con­di­tioned to think that a high­er cost always means high­er qual­i­ty, but in cer­tain instances, that is not a viable option. Edu­ca­tion is one of those cas­es. Tuition increased by 260% from 1980 to the year 2014, utter­ly sky­rock­et­ing. Because of how dras­tic the cost can be at some insti­tu­tions of high­er learn­ing, some stu­dents may wor­ry that the top data sci­ence pro­grams are out of their reach. The good news is that that could­n’t be less true.

Great Basin Col­lege has a data sci­ence degree pro­gram, more specif­i­cal­ly a Bach­e­lor of Applied Sci­ence with a focus in Dig­i­tal Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy. Cours­es will cov­er net­work­ing, dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion pro­duc­tion, infor­ma­tion man­age­ment, and even busi­ness skills. This is a well-round­ed option that sub­stan­tial­ly cov­ers all of a stu­den­t’s bases as they are get­ting ready to enter the pro­fes­sion­al realm of data sci­ence. It is entire­ly online and asyn­chro­nous and costs only $161 per cred­it hour. GBC is an all-around robust (yet afford­able) high-qual­i­ty degree program.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Data Management/Data Ana­lyt­ics at West­ern Gov­er­nors Uni­ver­si­ty is one of the most com­pet­i­tive degree pro­grams in this par­tic­u­lar area of study; it equips stu­dents with cer­ti­fi­ca­tions in Ora­cle, Comp­TIA, and CIW, at no extra cost. It also includes a Udac­i­ty Nan­ode­gree, through which you can reap all the ben­e­fits of Udac­i­ty (employ­ment place­ment, résumé sup­port, net­work­ing and LinkedIn guid­ance, and even more) with­out added costs as well. Tuition for the WGU offer­ing is just $290 per cred­it hour.

Stu­dents of South­ern New Hamp­shire Uni­ver­si­ty only pay $320 per cred­it hour in the Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Data Ana­lyt­ics online degree pro­gram; they will learn to com­bine data min­ing and struc­ture with mod­el­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion. There are sev­er­al oth­er high-qual­i­ty data sci­ence degrees online that cost under $500 per cred­it hour, like those offered at Lib­er­ty Uni­ver­si­ty, Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty — Fuller­ton, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton, and sev­er­al oth­ers. Each ful­ly-accred­it­ed and ful­ly-online degree brings some­thing unique to the table with­out tak­ing a large chunk out of your bank account.

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