Internship and curriculum development for post-graduate analytics students: A case study on Master of IT in Business Programme in Singapore Management University

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

12-2022

Abstract

Given the growing demands of data analysts, universities have been launching programs on data analytics and data science. It is hence essential to examine the data analytics program curriculum and the skills required by the industries. This study aims to identify the links and gaps between the Master of IT in Business Program curriculum, compared with the skills required by employers when hiring interns. With the links and gaps are mapped between the curriculum and required skills, this study provides the first empirical investigations on internship job requirements with curricular aspects for analytics postgraduate program.

Keywords

analytics curriculum, post-graduate students, internship, technical skills, soft skills

Discipline

Curriculum and Instruction | Instructional Media Design

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

Proceedings of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), Hung Hom, Hong Kong, December 4-7

ISBN

9781665491181

Identifier

10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00010

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Comments

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10148298

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE54877.2022.00010

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