Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

The University of Connecticut always allowed flexibility in creating new, unique majors, but the immense student demand for one in particular—data science—came as a surprise. “It was almost getting ...

Business investment in data science is one of the most important advances of the past decade. While some may argue data science has already worked its way into every industry, there are still areas ...