Mission

GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN SCIENCES offers the Master of Science in Data Science and the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies. 

DATA SCIENCE

The mission of the Master of Science in Data Science is to provide students with the interdisciplinary skills necessary to analyze and extract insights from data of all types. In addition to honing their general problem solving, critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning skills, students develop their programming, mathematical, and statistical prowess, applying these to data-centric problems within a domain of their choice.  A concentration of support courses in business analytics, bioinformatics, or geographic information systems allow students to apply these skills to their domain of interest.

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDIES

In keeping with the University's mission and culture, the program embraces educating minds, touching hearts, and remembering the presence of God.

Our mission is to educate and prepare diverse and exemplary individuals to become caring, competent, ethical, and professional physician assistants who can practice clinically in a wide variety of settings and positively affect their patients, the community, and the health care system through evidence-based and preventive medicine, leadership, life-long learning, utilization of information technology, the provision of health care to the medically underserved, interdisciplinary team care, patient advocacy, and the delivery of primary health care for all patients.