While some partnerships, like the one at The George Washington University, will yield full masters programs in business analytics, others will produce smaller initiatives such as the one-week intensive course at Georgetown. The collaborations will allow the universities to use IBM software as well as for access to local IBM experts.
Policy makers, not just private companies, are investing in higher education’s Big Data push.
Ohio lawmakers, for example, seem likely to put $54 million toward a Big Data center on the campus of Ohio State University, where two aging buildings will be renovated to store the data-related technology.
The free Big Data offers to colleges and universities comes a few years after a report projected a massive shortage in workers with data analytics skills by 2018.
The demand for people with data analytics skills is expected to increase by 24 percent over the next eight years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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