I. Overview

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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.

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II. Requirements for the DS certificate

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

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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.)

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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.