The MS in Applied Analytics from Empire State College is a 30-credit-hour, on-line, professional master’s graduate degree program. It provides students with the necessary skill sets to make informed decisions based on the statistical analysis of data relevant across industries and organizations. This master’s degree provides students with strategic approaches to decision making within public and private institutions. These strategic approaches will be used to develop frameworks for solving analytical problems, decisions on which data needs to be collected, what information systems can be effectively used to collect the data, and what analyses should be performed in order to inform institutional decision making.