Animal Health Data Analytics and Insights Certificate

With the proper education and experience, animal health analytics professionals can enter new career roles and positions such as:

• Animal health data scientist
• Biomedical systems engineer
• Clinical data manager
• Data and digital technology developer
• Marketing and sales analyst

• No required prerequisites
• Fully online coursework
• Full-time faculty and guest lecturers with industry experience
• May start coursework any semester during the year
• No out-of-state tuition and fees

Designed for Industry
Numerous industries are experiencing the data boom and are learning new ways to extract value from data. This era of technological advancement also is impacting the animal health industry and has created a need for professionals who understand both animal health and data analytics.

What are issues in data analytics that are critical to the animal health industry?
Strategies to maximize value extracted from data is dependent on having domain knowledge in animal health and in data analytics.

Animal health has numerous disparate data sources, which creates opportunity to derive insight that was previously inaccessible. Advances in data analytics and artificial intelligence have unlocked new innovative product opportunities in animal health.

Leveraging data insights to meet supply chain demands and customer needs remains a key challenge.

Courses and experiences were developed with industry input and are designed to equip students with the tools needed to approach consumer problems, navigate product challenges and ideate new solutions in an interdisciplinary manner.

See the full list of courses for this online certificate program.

Additionally, you can see what courses faculty at K-State Olathe instruct.

Students with animal health backgrounds should take electives from the math-related course elective list and students with math-related backgrounds should take electives from the animal health-related course elective list.

Admissions Requirements

• Official transcripts for all undergraduate coursework (minimum 3.0 GPA required)
• Official transcripts for all graduate coursework
• A completed application to the K-State Graduate School. This application has a $35 fee.

Educational and Background Requirements

Basic requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Passion for analytics in animal health
• Access to learn online

Animal health professionals working in analytics have varied backgrounds. One of the challenges is finding talent with both strong animal health and analytics domain knowledge.

This graduate certificate is appropriate for professionals with a bachelor's degree with a variety of backgrounds, including animal science, veterinary medicine, bioinformatics, mathematics or statistics.

Ideal candidates for the certificate
This Data Analytics and Insights in Animal Health Graduate Certificate is ideal for working professionals who want to:

• Implement strategic use of data analytics methods for business and product development applications in animal health.
  
  
• Establish working knowledge of relevant animal health data sources and how to leverage those data to drive insight and action.
  
  
• Develop product development pipelines and continuous discovery techniques using both research and market insights as drivers for animal health innovation.