Applied Data Science Program by MIT Professional Education Reviews

This bootcamp was a great experience. I like to tell people that if I had to do it again, I would. I joined the bootcamp without any prior data scientists experience, other than my bachelors degree in applied mathematics. The program allowed me to refresh my math skills, and learn Python. To be more specific, the following topics were covered: Foundation for Data Science, Data analysis and visualization, practical data science, deep learning, recommendation systems and Machine learning. We had live sessions with the  MIT Professionals and recordings were available for revisions. 

I had a great experience with the MIT Great Learning Data Science program. It was an outstanding balance of theoretical and applied content. In particular, I enjoyed the final Capstone project, which was well thought out and focused on problem sets that are aligned with what I've seen in the real world. I also wanted to thank the Program Office (Shruti) for their responsiveness and resourcefulness. 

This course provided the foundational knowledge on a wide breadth of subjects and techniques, as well as the tools and hands-on experience to demystify these techniques. Not only does the course walk you through the background and theory, it also provide you with coding templates and hands-on instruction to help apply what you're learning in real-world contexts. The course covers a vast array of subjects in a short amount of time so the pace can be a bit break-neck (and certain subjects, such as NLP, aren't covered due to time limitations), but I received tremendous support from my program manager (Miriam!) to stay on track and excel. 

When I jumped into this program, I was baffled and perplexed about how I would get through so much content in such a short time. However, the instructors, as well as the program managers made this program very informative and fruitful. Theory, as well as real-world applications definitely made this course thrilling and exciting. I had a lot of fun coding and writing comments on the Jupyter Notebook, and I would definitely recommend people, regardless of their age and experience, to go through this program and learn about the fundamentals of a discipline that is currently booming in the world.  

The whole program was well planned, the learning platform (website) was very easy to navigate, complete and very helpful. The professor are very much not only experts in their fields but also very much approachable, the mentors are also very accomodating and understanding in ensuring that we all understand what needs to be understood, and most of all the program managers really guided us and supported us all through out the program in order to complete the program successfully. Side note: The class was really competitive, everyone was doing their best to achieve most out of the program. A really good learning environment.

"Overall I really enjoyed my time with the program as I learned a lot of new skills that I wanted to acquire while trying to change careers. It was difficult at the beginning to start from scratch but I do believe that program provided the necessary tools and resources for me to learn many new topics and succeed in this field. I do believe that this program is very effective and useful for anyone interested in learning more about data science. It has benefitted me greatly as I transition to a career in data science."

I enrolled with the Making Data-Driven Decisions program by MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) on Great Learning platform in the September 2022 Cohort.
Overall the course is updated and very suitable for working professionals, beginners wanting to venture into the new domain. The videos of training are from the top notch, first line, highly experienced executives of ML/DS domain. Top marks for the instructors whose videos forms the crux of the training for the entire course in addition to online weekly Live mentored learning sessions.
Being from a Chemical Engineering background, and having classical engineering job experience, I had almost no background on Statistics and Programming Languages. Post the course I have been equipped with skills, which I am applying to perform data analysis for our company (who sponsored the course) quite successfully to solve problems and get more insights to formulate further strategies.
I would also like to have a special mention of Mrs. Akshatha / Sandhya and also Senior Trainer Dr. Abhinanda Sarkar (Academic Director) who has been phenomenal in this journey of my training with their best abilities to contribute to my upskilling.
Happy Learning. Have a Great Learning!

It has been a great learning experience through out the journey. The support, assistance, content, conceptual clarity provided is highly commendable. Especially patience from the instructors, while answering queries and providing detailed clarifications sometimes even multiple times 😬😬😬. I was afraid as I don't have coding experience but i manage to learn and now completed tghe course. The learning I had will definitely assist in my career. Thanks again !!

The MIT IDSS & Great Learning nailed it. I loved the way the professors present concepts capturing what's truly the essence. They speak from their research and also the content from some of the best books is covered. I'd say you can't miss this, it's really good. It lets you cover a whole lot in a short time. I cant take one professors name as each of them was super great. The Mentor Hojjat Salehinejad Very helpful, Hojjat Salehinejad would go beyond what's expected and give us excellent practical insights and direction from his professional experience and years of experience. The Case Studies designed well, they give you the hand on exposure. The Great Learning course Support team coordinator is great, responds immediately and resolves the tickets raised by attendees. My cohort was very good too, they ask great questions which makes the sessions even more interesting. Thanks much to the in class mentors Drew and Shubam, excellent insights, I really miss the sessions :) Loved the Program Very Grateful to the Professors, Mentors and Great Learning.

I used to think Certificate Programs are money traps. Easy and everyone in the program passes.Not with this one.2 years of Master’s Level Courses packed into 2 months of lectures from MIT Professors, and coding exercises mentored by Industry Professionals. 15 hrs of lectures, 15 hrs of coding per week.Great spread and depth in AI/ML.Thanks to our great program manager at GreatLearning for her patience with our late submissions. Feel free to reach out with questions.