The Academic Accelerator Program (AAP) is a balanced first-year program for international students with good English-language skills. It supplements immersive classes taught in English with just the right amount of support. Students in the Academic Accelerator receive: • The right amount of support for their academic and English-speaking needs • A full year’s worth of college credits • Access to courses exclusively for international students • English-language help with words they need to know for their classes • A mix of classes with international and U.S. students

The worlds of science, engineering, and business are now reliant on data-driven analysis and decision making. Data Science is the 21st-century discipline formalizing this process, and making enormous impacts in new scientific discoveries, engineering how the world works, and driving business decisions that power much of our economic growth. A data scientist is one who can weave a complete story with data, from its humble and messy beginnings, through its maturation via sophisticated analysis, and concluding with an explanation of its real-world impact. This program teaches both technical data processing (programming, data wrangling, data management) and data analysis (machine learning, data mining, visual analytics) skills, and also guides students through the complicated explainability, ethical, and domain integration challenges.