
Business organizations across industries today are recognizing the value of a workforce adept in data science skills. A study by the McKinsey Global Institute indicates that as much as $2.6 trillion of additional value may be created by AI and machine learning worldwide by 2020 in the field of marketing alone, and another $2 trillion in manufacturing and supply chain planning, and global market intelligence firm IDC predicts that spending on cognitive and AI systems will more than triple by 2022.1
2.7 million
Projected job openings requiring data and analytics skills in the U.S. in 20202

Our Data Science Courses
Explore the online professional certificate programs in data science offered by UT and EmergingEd, and see how building your data science skills can create your career advantage.
Machine Learning Foundations and Frameworks
The big data revolution is underway. Are you ready to embrace the machine learning innovations that can lead your company to the top? Machine Learning Foundations and Frameworks provides essential grounding in the tools and techniques that comprise the field of machine learning. You will discuss the benefits and limitations of machine learning when compared to traditional statistics; illustrate supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning; develop research plans for classification and regression; interpret research results from machine learning; and recommend deep learning methods for intelligent systems.
8 weeks
$1,500
Continuous Enrollment
Installment payments are now available on all course purchases!
Machine Learning and Industry
Even if you have an idea for a machine learning solution that could transform your company, implementing it is a whole different challenge. Machine Learning and Industry trains you to transform your organization by embracing the data engineering and machine learning strategies that are driving innovation today. You will learn to develop life cycles for managing projects utilizing machine learning and identify technologies and design architectures for implementing machine learning and intelligence effectively in any industry or organization.
8 weeks
$1,500
Continuous Enrollment
Installment payments are now available on all course purchases!
Machine Learning Cases
This is your chance to learn from the successes and failures of others to build your machine learning skillset. Rooted in real cases, this course provides an opportunity for you to explore the details of applying machine learning in an organization with the guidance of an expert. You will learn how to evaluate machine learning applications in business and gain the confidence to utilize complex machine learning situations such as Turing Tests, robotic process automation, knowledge-based systems and recursive neural networks.
8 weeks
$1,500
Continuous Enrollment
Installment payments are now available on all course purchases!
Accelerate Your Career
Through meticulous research into trends across industries, we have designed these flexible, targeted courses to help you build the skill set and knowledge base that today’s successful professionals must possess in applied, in-demand, tech-focused areas.

Increase Your Value
Start building a machine learning and data science skill set that can qualify you for America’s No. 1 job, according to Glassdoor.3

Stay Competitive
Keep up with the competition in a job market in which the number of analytics-savvy professionals is expected to double by the end of 2020.4

Lead With Vision
Train yourself to work with the rapidly developing analytics tools that drive agile, smart decision-making, and keep your organization at the front of the field.
Powered by Emerginged
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s online professional certificate programs are offered in collaboration with EmergingEd, a leader in online professional education. Through this partnership, we are able to deliver expert-driven, high-impact course content in the most in-demand emerging technology fields to the UT online learning community.
1. Retrieved on December 10, 2019, from forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2019/03/27/roundup-of-machine-learning-forecasts-and-market-estimates-2019
2. Retrieved on December 10, 2019, from ibm.com/downloads/cas/3RL3VXGA
3. Retrieved on December 10, 2019, from forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2019/01/23/data-scientist-leads-50-best-jobs-in-america-for-2019-according-to-glassdoor
4. Retrieved on December 10, 2019, from wsj.com/articles/supply-of-analytics-workers-set-to-double-11556663406