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The recommended four-year plan is designed to provide a blueprint for students to complete their degrees within four years. Students must meet with their Major Advisor to develop a more individualized plan to complete their degree. This plan assumes that no developmental courses are required. If developmental courses are needed, students may have additional requirements to fulfill which are not listed in the plan and may extend degree completion.
NOTE: This recommended Four-Year Plan is applicable to students admitted into the major during the 2023-2024 academic year.
To enroll, visit https://www.ramapo.edu/data-science/4plus1/
First Year
Fall Semester
- Gen Ed: Quantitative Reasoning – MATH 121 - CALCULUS I* (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: INTD 101 - FIRST YEAR SEMINAR (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: CRWT 102 - CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: - SOCIAL SCIENCE INQUIRY (HRS 4)
- Total: (HRS 16)
Spring Semester
- Major: CMPS 130 - SCI PROBLEM SOLVING-PYTHON or CMPS 147 - COMPUTER SCIENCE I (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH 237 - DISCRETE STRUCTURES WI OR MATH 205 - MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES WI (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH 122 - CALCULUS II (HRS 4)
- Career Pathways: PATH TS1 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 1 FOR THEORETICAL & APPLIED SCIENCE
- Total: (HRS 16)
Second Year
Fall Semester
- Major: MATH 225 - MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH 262 - LINEAR ALGEBRA WI (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: Scientific Reasoning – PHYS 116 - PHYSICS I WITH CALCULUS LECTURE (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: Scientific Reasoning – PHYS 116L - INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS I LAB (HRS 1)
- Gen Ed: - STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES formerly known as - STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES AIID 201 - STUDIES IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (HRS 4)
- Career Pathways: PATH TS2 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 2 FOR THEORETICAL & APPLIED SCIENCE
- Total: (HRS 17)
Spring Semester
- Major: MATH 305 - DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH Elective numbered above 237 (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: Distribution Category (choose 1): - CULTURE AND CREATIVITY, - SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY, or - VALUES AND ETHICS (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: - GLOBAL AWARENESS (HRS 4)
- Career Pathways: PATH TS3 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 3 FOR THEORETICAL & APPLIED SCIENCE
- Total: (HRS 16)
Third Year
Fall Semester
- Major: MATH 432 - ABSTRACT ALGEBRA WI (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH Elective Level 300 or Above (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH Elective numbered above 237 (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: Distribution Category (choose 1): - CULTURE AND CREATIVITY; OR - SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY OR - VALUES AND ETHICS (Must be outside of TAS) (HRS 4)
- Total: (HRS 16)
Spring Semester
- Major: MATH 416 - INTRODUCTION TO ANALYSIS (HRS 4)
- Major: MATH Elective: MATH 370 - APPLIED STATISTICS OR MATH 353 - STATISTICS, not both** (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (for missing 2 credits senior year) (HRS 2)
- Total: (HRS 18)
Fourth Year
Fall Semester
- Major: MATH 441 - HISTORY OF MATH WI (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- Major: DATA 601 - INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE (MS) (HRS 3)
- Major: MATH 570 - APPLIED STATISTICS (MS) (HRS 3)
- Total: (HRS 14)
Spring Semester
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- Major: DATA 620 - ETHICS IN DATA & COMPUTING (MS) (HRS 3)
- Total: (HRS 15)
Fifth Year
Fall Semester
- Major: CMPS 530 - PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE (HRS 3)
- Major: MATH 680 - ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL MODELING (HRS 3)
- Major: Technical Elective AND/OR Interdisciplinary Elective AND/OR DATA 730 - DATA SCIENCE FIELDWORK I*** (HRS 3+3)
- Total: (HRS 12)
Spring Semester
- Major: CMPS 664 - ADVANCED DATABASE AND BIG DATA SYSTEMS (HRS 3)
- Major: Data Science Elective at 600/700 level (HRS 3)
- Major: DATA 750 - DATA SCIENCE THESIS (HRS 3)
- Total: (HRS 9)
Total Credits Required for undergraduate degree: 128 credits****
GPA Required for BS in Data Science: 2.0
GPA Required for 4+1 Pathway: 3.0
WI: Writing Intensive – 3 courses required in the major.
* See the course catalog for prerequisites for Calculus I. One of the ways to enter Calculus I is to place into it via the Accuplacer Advanced Algebra and Functions (AAF) placement test at the RCNJ Testing Center. The Testing Center is open all year round. If the placement test results for a given student indicate that developmental courses are required (for instance, Precalculus, or Elementary Algebra Topics followed by Precalculus), such developmental courses may be taken as early as during the summer session(s) preceding the student’s freshman year [Summer Session I (late May – late June) or Summer Session II (mid July – mid August)]. See the RCNJ Testing Center website for more details on the AAF test.
Those mathematics majors who end up taking Precalculus, which is a 4-credit-hour course counting towards graduation credits, can count it as, for instance, the 4 HR Elective in the Fourth Year Spring in the table above.
**A student in Math 4+1 program must take either Math 353 or Math 370, but not both. Math 353 is a fall course. Math 370 is a spring course. If a student takes both of these two courses, then the one taken earlier will count as a “MATH Elective Level 300 or Above” requirement, but the one taken later will be counted as a general elective, and not as a “Math elective Level 300 or above”. Similarly, if a student first takes MATH 237 and later takes MATH 205, then MATH 205 will not count as a math elective, but as a general elective.
Total Graduate Credits Required: 30 credits (listed with MS in fourth year and all fifth year courses)
Student must be in good academic standing: https://www.ramapo.edu/provost/policy/graduate-academic-standing/
***Students must complete two technical electives and one interdisciplinary elective. DATA 730 Fieldwork Experience may be used to replace one of the three total electives.
****The 9 credits of graduate coursework taken in the fourth-year will double count towards both the undergraduate degree requirement of 128 credits as well as the required 30 graduate credits.
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