Professional Focus + Google Data Analytics Certificate
Description and Outcomes
Developed in partnership with Google, the Professional Focus + Google Data Analytics Certificate program is a unique opportunity for you to earn the Google Data Analytics Career Certificate with the advantage of Purdue Global faculty and support and earn a Purdue Global micro-credential at the same time. This program will prepare you to begin or pivot your career into the field of data analytics.
In this program you will learn the methods for gathering, analyzing, displaying and sharing data effectively. The tools explored include spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau, and R programming, among others. These skills, combined with the knowledge gained from the chosen micro-credential, will allow you to apply your data analytics skills to a specific industry.
Qualified credits earned in fulfillment of this certificate program may be transferable to certain Purdue Global degree programs.
Micro-credential
In addition to the core Google Data Analytics Career Certificate courses, you will choose from select micro-credentials to allow you to personalize your program to your individual career interests. A micro-credential is a course or grouping of courses that represents a focused skill or area of knowledge.
Program Length
The Professional Focus + Google Data Analytics Certificate program consists of a minimum of 51 quarter credit hours. Upon successful completion of the program, you will be awarded a certificate.
Program Outcomes
- Data Usage: Explore the use of data across multiple industries.
- Analysis Tools: Develop a working knowledge of essential data analysis tools (spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau, R programming) and when to use them in the data lifecycle.
- Database: Design a relational database to include the methods for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data.
- Data Visualization: Apply appropriate tools and methods to display data effectively.
- Programming: Use R programming to manipulate data to be displayed.
- Synthesis: Develop a culminating project to be included in a portfolio or to share with employers.
General Education Literacies and Professional Competencies
In addition to the discipline-specific outcomes, general education literacies and professional competencies are integrated throughout your academic program. You can review the general education literacies and professional competencies associated with your academic program in the General Education and Professional Competency Requirements section of this Catalog.
Program Availability
For program availability, please refer to the U.S. State and Other Approvals section and Program Availability Information.
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Admissions Requirements
Upon enrollment in the Professional Focus + Google Data Analytics Certificate, you are required to select a micro-credential.
If you have completed the Google Data Analytics Career Certificate and provide evidence of such to the Office of the Registrar prior to the first day of your first term, you will receive credit for IN223 Data Analytics and Decision-Making, IN224 Relational Databases, IN225 Modifying and Sharing Data for Decision-Making, and IN226 Programming and Data and Ways to Share Data.
If you have not fully completed the Google Data Analytics Career Certificate, you will take IN223 Data Analytics and Decision-Making, IN224 Relational Databases, IN225 Modifying and Sharing Data for Decision-Making, and IN226 Programming and Data and Ways to Share Data as part of your program. By enrolling in this program to take these courses, you consent to allow Purdue Global to share such information about you as will permit Google to consider and award this certificate.
Progression Requirements
The IN223 Data Analytics and Decision-Making, IN224 Relational Databases, IN225 Modifying and Sharing Data for Decision-Making, and IN226 Programming and Data and Ways to Share Data course series must be taken in sequence.
Purdue Global will notify Google once you successfully complete the IN223 Data Analytics and Decision-Making, IN224 Relational Databases, IN225 Modifying and Sharing Data for Decision-Making, and IN226 Programming and Data and Ways to Share Data course series, whereupon Google will consider the award of their Google Data Analytics Career Certificate. The Google Data Analytics Career Certificate, if awarded, will be issued directly by Google.
You may not use credit for prior learning to fulfill the Data Analytics in Action course. This requirement must be completed at Purdue Global.
Certification, State Board, and National Board Exams
Certain state certification and licensure boards have specific educational requirements for programs to lead to a license or certification that is a precondition for employment in a recognized occupation. Prospective and current students must review Purdue Global’s State Licensure and Certifications site to view program and state-specific licensure information.
Unless otherwise specified, Purdue Global's programs are not designed to meet any specific state’s licensure or certification requirements. Licensure-track programs may limit enrollment to students in certain states; please see Purdue Global’s Program Availability Information to determine enrollment eligibility.
You are responsible for understanding the requirements of optional certification exams. Such requirements may change during the course of your program. You are not automatically certified in any way upon program completion. Although certain programs are designed to prepare you to take various optional certification exams, Purdue Global cannot guarantee you will be eligible to take these exams or become certified. Your eligibility may depend on your work experience, completion of education and/or degree requirements, not having a criminal record, and meeting other certification requirements.