I. Overview

To encourage GRIPS students to take data science-related courses, GRIPS established a Certificate System in Data Science (DS) for Policy Studies in October 2021.

II. Requirements for the DS certificate

Under the certification system, students who fulfill all of the following requirements will be awarded a DS certificate.

1. Two (or more) credits for courses among the following data science basic/core courses:

・Introduction to Data Science

・Data Science in Practice

・Data Science for Public Policy

(We offer four other courses in Japanese.)

2. Ten (or more) credits (for five two-credit courses) for data science-related courses (please refer to “List of Data Science-related Courses”), including those listed above.