Students in the Big Data Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Mathematical properties and usage of database programming languages. 
• Methods of database design, conceptual modeling and physical storage for big data sets. 
• Fundamental notions of concurrency control and recovery in database systems. 
• Goal tree search, logic, and deduction, uncertainty, fuzzy logic, knowledge representations, machine learning, vision and action planning. 
• Methods for association and dependency analysis, classification and prediction, and clustering analysis. 
• Current trends in data mining overall as well as for scientific, medical and engineering applications.

Post-Study Work visa or permit, allowing international students on F-1 visas to work in the US after completing their studies, typically through Optional Practical Training (OPT).

Eligibility:
To be eligible for OPT, students must have been enrolled full-time in a US educational institution for at least one academic year and be seeking work related to their major.

Duration:
Students can apply for up to 12 months of OPT, either before they finish their studies (pre-completion) or after graduation (post-completion).

STEM OPT:
Students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields can apply for an extended OPT period of up to 24 months.

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The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Duolingo or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) may be asked of international applicants not holding a degree from a United States post-secondary institution.  The minimum score required is 79 for the Internet-based TOEFL exam, 213 for the computer-based TOEFL exam, or 550 for the paper-based TOEFL exam.  A minimum score of 6.5 with no sub-score lower than 6.0 is required for the IELTS exam.  A minimum score of 120 is required for the Duolingo exam. A minimum score of 57 is required for the PTE exam.

GRE/GMAT requirements per academic college:

• Newark College of Engineering - GRE optional but strongly recommended
• Ying Wu College of Computing - GRE required for all international applicants
• Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts - GRE optional
• Hillier College of Architecture and Design - GRE optional
• Martin Tuchman School of Management - GMAT/GRE may be waived for applicants with cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 (international students need a WES or another NACES-approved evaluation)
• Online Programs - GRE/GMAT is optional for all online applicants