NOTE: CRWT and MATH courses are determined by placement testing and should be taken following the sequence above.

Total Credits Required for undergraduate degree: 128 credits****

GPA Required for BS in Data Science: 2.0

GPA Required for 4+1 Pathway: 3.0

WI: Writing Intensive-3 required in the major

*General Education courses can be done in any order with the exception of INTD 101, CRWT and MATH. Those three general education courses will need to be done first. First Year Seminar is taken in the first semester. Failure to complete CRWT and MATH will result in a hold when the student hits 64 credits. The following general education courses can be done in any order. For more info on these courses, please visit the General Education program requirements website in the College Catalog:

Social Science Inquiry (+W)

SOCIAL SCIENCE INQUIRY

Scientific Reasoning

SCIENTIFIC REASONING

Distribution Category (Outside of TAS)

VALUES AND ETHICS; SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY; OR CULTURE AND CREATIVITY

Distribution Category

VALUES AND ETHICS; SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY; OR CULTURE AND CREATIVITY

+W: Students transferring in with 48 or more credits are waived from these general education requirements.

* As part of their degree requirements, Data Science majors are also required to complete a minor or double major to gain domain knowledge in a particular field, to better contextualize their data studies. Most minor programs require 5-6 courses. Any minor or second major can be selected: https://www.ramapo.edu/majors-minors/a-z/

**Data Science elective courses to be chosen for the BS in Data Science may require pre-requisites outside the program requirements. For example, Math 305 Differential Equations, Math 245 Numerical Analysis, and Math 253 Probability each have Math 122 Calculus II as a pre-requisite. Additionally, Math 253 Probability also allows the option for Math 122 Calculus II to be taken as a co-requisite. Please see instructor for ECON 310: Econometrics to discuss prerequisite course requirements.

***Three additional credits are required in the 3rd year because graduate courses are only 3 credits, instead of the usual 4 credits for undergraduate courses. Thus, a student must take an additional 3 credits to meet the 128-credit undergraduate graduation requirement.

Total Graduate Credits Required: 30 credits****

GPA Required for MSAM: 3.0

****The 9 credits of graduate coursework taken in the fourth-year will double count towards both the undergraduate degree requirement of 128 credits as well as the required 30 graduate credits.