The Data Analytics Engineering (DAEN) program was officially approved in 2013 by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), making George Mason one of only five universities nationwide to launch such a pioneering graduate program in data analytics.
About the DAEN Program
The program was established within the Volgenau School of Engineering—formerly known as the School of Information Technology and Engineering—a school long recognized for its multidisciplinary approach to education and research.
The DAEN program was deliberately designed to be multidisciplinary, bringing together expertise from across the university, with faculty drawn from Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, and other departments. This intersectionality ensures that students gain both the technical depth and the cross-domain perspective needed to excel in today’s data-driven world.
Learn how the we prepare students information intensive fields that work with large amounts of data.
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