Chiba University has decided to establish the Faculty of Information and Data Science and the Graduate School of Information and Data Science for the latter three-year doctoral course in 2024, and has submitted the relevant documents to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.Whether or not to approve it will be discussed at the advisory body of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Council for University Establishment and School Corporations.
According to Chiba University, the Faculty of Information and Data Science will be established by dissolving the Information Engineering Course in the Department of Integrated Engineering, Faculty of Engineering.The Department of Information and Data Science will be established, and two courses, Data Science and Information Engineering, will be established.Enrollment capacity is 2 people.The data science course cultivates practical data scientists, and the information engineering course cultivates human resources who advance the sophistication of data science.
The Graduate School of Information and Data Science (10-year doctoral course) has an information and data science major, with a capacity of 10 students.Develop human resources who can develop advanced data science and lead innovation.Enrollment capacity is XNUMX people.
Data scientists are indispensable human resources in the new digital age, but until now there have been few departments that cultivate human resources at domestic universities, so there is a chronic shortage.For this reason, starting with the establishment of Japan's first data science faculty at Shiga University in 2017, information and data science departments are being established at various locations including Hitotsubashi University, Wakayama University, Nagoya City University, Kyoto Women's University, and Mukogawa Women's University. New faculties continue to be established.
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