MS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE:

MACHINE LEARNING
2 YEARS | ONLINE/US ON-CAMPUS | HYBRID

NO GRE/TOEFL REQUIRED Offered in collaboration with:

SAVE INR 55+ LAKHS

UPTO 3 YEARS STEM OPT VISA IN THE US
INTRODUCTION
The abundance of data in the modern world has presented endless opportunities to
professionals for success - those of making sense of this data. Information Science and its
exploration of the best ways to organize, store and represent data is one of the world’s most
in-demand fields today. It equips professionals with the knowledge to not just design
information-driven solutions for problems of today, but also develop the right management
frameworks for the future.

The MS in Information Science: Machine Learning program, offered by the University of

Arizona in collaboration with Great Learning, aims to empower you to enhance the accessibility
of information. Over the course of the program, you will be exposed to several real-world
problems and taught how to solve them with information management skills. It offers a holistic,
interdisciplinary curriculum to suit the needs of learners from various industries and helps you
develop both technological and social skills. You can become a future-ready information
professional who can manage and interpret large amounts of data with high accuracy. To be a
part of this program, fill out your application without having to take additional tests or follow
any prerequisites.

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 RANKINGS AND
RECOGNITIONS
TOP 50
PUBLIC
UNIVERSITY
U.S. News & World Report, 2021

TOP 100
GLOBAL
UNIVERSITY
U.S. News & World Report, 2021

TOP 0.47%
WORLDWIDE UNIVERSITY
Center for World University Rankings, 2022

ABOUT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
The University of Arizona was established in 1885 in Tucson, Arizona, and is ranked in the
Top 100 Best Global Universities by U.S News and World Report (2022). Known for
advancing frontiers of interdisciplinary scholarship and entrepreneurial partnerships,
UArizona has been a part of every planetary mission with NASA and is the fourth most
awarded public university by NASA for research. UArizona is globally recognized, ranking
No. 93 overall out of nearly 20,000 global colleges and universities, No. 49 among U.S.
institutions and No. 27 among public colleges and universities in the annual Center for
World University Rankings (2022).

A world leader in research and innovation, UArizona is a Top 20 Public Research

Institution, according to the National Science Foundation, and is a leading Research 1 (R1)
institution with $734 million in annual research expenditures. The university advances the
frontiers of interdisciplinary scholarship and entrepreneurial partnerships as a member of
the Association of American Universities, the 66 leading public and private research
universities in the U.S. More at everywhere.arizona.edu.

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 ABOUT THE
PROGRAM
The MS in Information Science: Machine
Learning program is curated at the University
of Arizona and offered in collaboration with
Great Learning. From the foundations of
information management to complex
applications of it with machine learning, the
program provides a holistic overview of the
world of Information Science. Taught by the
University of Arizona in a hybrid mode, the
program features hands-on projects and
mentorship sessions to enhance the learning
experience.

1 st year - Online
HYBRID 2nd year - On-campus
(Tucson, Arizona)

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

3 Years Save INR Get Alumni Quick Application Learn In-Person

Post-Study 55+ Lakhs Status From With No From Faculty at
Work/STEM OPT University of Additional Tests University of
Visa in USA Arizona or Prerequisites Arizona

MS in Information Live Interactive Practical 11 Hands-On Capstone

Science: Machine Sessions With Insights From Projects and Project
Learning Program University of Industry Experts Case Studies
From the University Arizona Faculty
of Arizona

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WHO IS THIS
PROGRAM FOR?

Young, early-career Mid and senior-level Professionals who

professionals looking to
go abroad and master
information-driven
innovation with
knowledge of the latest
information methods.
professionals who are wish to transition to
looking to go abroad an information
and stay up-to-date with management career
the latest information with industry-ready
management skills skills and knowledge.
needed for success
in the digital world.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successfully completing this program,
you will be able to:

Review and report on information generation and

processing to understand data within a larger
context.

Assess and improve information management

systems to explore best practices, gaps, and areas
for improvement.

Apply machine learning techniques to solve

real-world business problems.

Work on the full information management pipeline

- from data mining and structuring to clustering
and modeling.

Become an ideal information science innovator

with the latest skills to extract actionable insights
for growth.

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PROGRAM CURRICULUM
The curriculum is designed by leading experts at the University of Arizona and practicing
industry professionals. It is specifically curated to cover a range of information science skills
- starting from the fundamentals and progressing to more complex, hands-on applications.
COURSE
Course 1:
Foundations of
Information
This course presents an
overview of the foundational
ideas of several Machine
Learning (ML) and Artificial
Intelligence (AI) topics that are
covered in greater detail in
further courses. Specific
topics covered include:
Course 2:
Data Mining and
Discovery
This course equips students with
methods to understand data
from a perspective of discovery.
Comprehending the
characteristics of various flavors
of datasets is an essential aspect
of AI projects. The techniques
from this course prove
particularly valuable in the initial
phases of a data science project.
Specific topics covered include:
HIGHLIGHTS
Understanding Data
Learn about types, sources and management of
internal and external data including static vs.
streaming data, reports, databases and online data.
Data Collection
Learn the process of extracting, transforming and
making data available for further use.
Data Usability
Learn the fundamentals of scoping the data by
eliminating redundant elements and following
logical, graphical, statistical analysis flow.
Data Storage
Get introduced to RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL, Data
Marts, Data Lakes, ETL and Data Pipelines as well
as large information repositories and tools like
Hadoop, Hive, Spark.
Introduction to Data Mining
Learn about data distributions; use basic math and
common programming functions to handle data.
Business Problem Identification and Scoping
Map data to business problems being solved and
select appropriate elements of data.
Graphical Data Analysis
Learn how to create basic graphs and analyze data
visually. Use descriptive statistics to interpret data
characteristics.
Supervised Learning Techniques
Learn how to predict class membership based on
decision trees and information gain.
Unsupervised Learning Techniques
Use unsupervised learning like dimensionality
reduction, clustering and association rules
to discover elements of data.
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COURSE
Course 3:
Data Analysis and
Visualization
This course equips students with
powerful methods to visualize
data. Students will learn how to
produce quality visualizations both
for dashboards and to depict
specific statistical patterns.
Specific topics covered include:
Course 4:
Introduction to
Machine Learning
This course presents a
comprehensive overview of
machine learning algorithms that
power state-of-the art AI
applications on tabular data.
Specific topics covered include:
HIGHLIGHTS
Theory of Visualization
Learn about design, shapes and color theory
behind visualizations.
Single and Multiple Dimension Visualizations
Use appropriate graphical design to depict
information and integrate multiple elements of data
to present information compactly and effectively.
Visualization for Audience
Learn about selection and presentation of visual
information according to audience requirements.
Interactive Visualizations
Understand linking visualizations to databases,
filtering and information highlighting for
visualizations. Explore Python integrations with
libraries that implement interactivity (e.g., D3.js).
Learning Theory and Model Evaluation
Understand bias-variance trade-off and cross
validation.
Linear Modeling
Learn how to do linear regression and linear
classification. Extend the linear model to various
use cases.
Non-Linear Modeling
Implement non-linear regression methods such as
polynomial regression, splines and generalized
additive models.
Classification Techniques
Implement basic classification techniques like
Logistic Regression, Bayesian Classification, Naive
Bayes, Nearest Neighbors & Support Vector
Machines.
Tree-based Techniques
Implement cutting edge tree-based algorithms and
ensemble algorithms such as Random Forests and
Gradient Boosting methods (XGBoost, CatBoost,
LightGBM).
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COURSE
Course 5:
Data Warehousing and
Analytics in the Cloud
This course is a deep dive into
the world of relational databases
using MySQL and databases
hosted on Azure. Understanding
how databases are designed and
how effective SQL queries
should be composed is a key
skill expected of a data scientist.
Specific topics covered include:
Course 6:
Data Ethics
This course equips students with
a nuanced understanding of the
role of ethics in the AI workflow.
As AI systems get embedded
into products and business
processes, data scientists are
increasingly required to
understand the ethical
implications of specific
algorithms that power these
products and processes. Specific
topics covered include:
HIGHLIGHTS
Introduction to Data Modeling
Build conceptual, logical and physical models of
databases. Understand key concepts of database
design including normalization.
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Write queries, functions, aggregations, joins and
subqueries in SQL. Implement advanced SQL
methods such as triggers, stored procedures.
Data Warehousing
Understand key components of a data warehouse.
Compose ETL jobs to handle different sources of
data. Execute incremental refreshes and data
refreshes to handle temporal data.
Managing Data on the Cloud
Understand cloud computing with Azure. Gain an
overview of different Azure Database Resources
and Services. Discuss cloud data platform
architectures.
Ethical Foundations
Learn about the birth of ethics, the role it plays in
our daily lives and how to ensure ethical conduct in
Data Science.
Ethics in Data
Learn how to ethically use and collect data, how to
ensure privacy through masking and how to
maintain anonymity and confidentiality of data and
metadata. Learn about the various ethics &
compliance initiatives undertaken to ensure privacy
of information such as GDPR.
Ethics in Modelling
Learn the various problems faced due to
algorithmic bias and how to take a data/model-
driven approach to tackle these problems.
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COURSE
Course 7:
Neural Networks
Neural networks are specific
types of models that are at the
heart of the current AI revolution.
This course introduces students
to the central ideas of composing
and training large scale neural
networks to handle different
types of data (e.g., text, images,
video). Specific topics
covered include:
Course 8:
Applied Natural
Language Processing
State-of-the art Generative AI
methods rely on recent advances
in Natural Language Processing
using neural networks. This
course introduces students to
the world of modern NLP with
cutting edge neural network
architectures such as
Transformers, the GPT family and
novel methods such as prompt
engineering. Specific topics
covered include:
HIGHLIGHTS
Introduction to Neural Networks
Learn about history, development and
applications of Neural Networks.
Feed Forward Neural Networks
Learn about Neural Network architecture,
gradient based learning and back propagation.
Regularization
Understand dropout, parameter penalties and
early stopping.
CNN and RNN
Understand Convolution and Pooling. Apply gated
recurrent network along with encoder-decoder
network and understand transformer network.
Practical Considerations and Interpretability
Understand default baseline models and
debugging and use local surrogates and saliency
maps for interpretability.
Acquiring and Managing Textual Data
Understand methods for data acquisition,
manual annotation, and pre-processing.
Text Representation
Implement several text representation methods
such as discrete representations, word
embeddings, and implement methods for
semantic text similarity.
Text Classification
Implement text classification with Linear
Regression and the FeedForward Neural
Network for NLP. Understand and use relevant
evaluation metrics to estimate model
performance.
Sequence Processing Tasks
Implement models for Sequence Labeling,
Reading Comprehension & Sequence to
Sequence generation.
Pre-Trained Large Language Models (LLMs)
Understand Language Modeling, and how
Pre-Trained Large Language Models (LLMs)
and their variants are trained.
Prompt Engineering
Task unification and handling multiple NLP
tasks with instructed LLMs.
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COURSE
Course 9:
Advanced Machine Learning/
AI Applications
This course equips students with
methods to use neural networks
and deep learning to build
custom AI solutions. Specific
topics covered include:
Capstone
HIGHLIGHTS
Applying deep learning methods for computer
vision (CV) including methods to train large CV
models.
Generative AI modeling with industry applications
(e.g., diffusion models, text-to-image models).
Case studies showcasing business
applications of AI.
Projects aligned to research priorities of university.
Examples:
1) Predicting climate change patterns using
hydrological data from regions.
2) Predicting climatic vulnerability based on
historic data.
3) Using NLP in analysis of public health records
and predicting population health parameters.
4) Using non-invasive imaging techniques to
rapidly assess population health.
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MEET THE FACULTY
DR. BRYAN HEIDORN
Professor DR. HONG CUI
Director, Center for Digital Professor,
Society and Data Studies, School of Information
School of Information

DR. CRISTIAN ROMÁN-PALACIOS DR. STEVEN BETHARD

Assistant Professor of Practice, Associate Professor,
School of Information School of Information

DR. MEAGHAN WETHERELL DR. PETER JANSEN

Assistant Professor of Practice, Assistant Professor,
School of Information School of Information

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BATCH PROFILE
KEY ORGANIZATIONS
The students in the current batch are employed in industry-leading organizations across nations.
Some of their current employers are:

LOCATION
Our students live in:

Amsterdam

Switzerland
Saudi Arabia India

Dubai

Columbia Singapore
Liberia
Mozambique

South Africa

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TESTIMONIALS

My favourite part of the MSML program is the industry expert session. Great Learning
absolutely went that extra mile to bring in some of the best experts to demonstrate the
concepts taught by the University of Arizona professors. The hands-on projects helped me
better understand fundamentals of data analysis and improved my Python coding skills.
Thanks Great Learning! Thanks University of Arizona!

PRASHANTH SHENOY
L&TD Professional at a
Fortune 500 Fintech Company

My favourite part of the program has been the hands-on projects which are incredibly
engaging and stimulating. I have been able to apply the concepts and skills that we have
learned in class to real-world scenarios. The faculty and the mentor sessions have been
very useful and informative.

MONA BAID
Member of Technical Staff,
Salesforce

The program is delightful, and the professors taught me so much.

I have absolutely enjoyed the program.

DAVID PHILLIPS
Student of MS in Information Science:
Machine Learning

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ADMISSION PROCESS
Great Learning provides end-to-end support in applying to the University of Arizona
and also in the US visa application process during the first year (for hybrid students).

STEP 1: STEP 2: STEP 3: STEP 4:

APPLY ONLINE PRE-SCREENING APPLICATION JOIN THE

Complete filling a
fast and easy online
application form.
No additional tests
or prerequisites are
needed to apply.
ASSESSMENT
Our team will make
contact with you by The Admissions
phone to confirm team will assess
your eligibility for your application
the program. and provide a
timely response.
PROGRAM
If selected, you will
receive an acceptance
letter with instructions
on how to pay and join
the program.

*Admission to the program is subject to documents verification

PROGRAM FEES* *Save INR 55+ lakhs as compared to full-time US master's.

Year 1: INR 10,28,370 (including 18% GST)

Year 2: USD 23,676
Note: Scholarships and financing options available. Reach out to your Program Advisor for more details. 14
CAMPUS LIFE AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Learners opting for the Hybrid mode of the program can experience the world-class
University of Arizona campus in the second year.

LIVING ON-CAMPUS AT TUCSON, ARIZONA

The Tucson metro area is home to over 1 million people and has
300+ days of sunshine in a year making it one of the most bikeable
cities in the world. University of Arizona has 23 dorms, and dozens
of fraternity and sorority houses.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES

The International Student Services office strives to support all

international students through graduation. You will find immigration
guidance, academic resources, cultural connections, and social
events through the International Student Services office.

600+ STUDENT CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS

There are hundreds of student clubs and organizations at the

University of Arizona for everything from niche hobbies to
extracurriculars to career-oriented and professional groups.

COMPLETE ACCESS TO THE UARIZONA LIBRARIES

A dozen state-of-the-art facilities are at your disposal. Hubs of

technology, arts, sciences, and more make it easy to dive deep
into knowledge.

TOP 10 RECREATION CENTERS - BEST VALUE SCHOOLS, 2021

University of Arizona’s Campus Recreation (Campus REC) is the

health and well-being place to be. From individual and group fitness
classes to outdoor adventures and aquatics, there is something for
you no matter your level of ability or expertise.

24X7 TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Access to technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, will

make your campus life easy.

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GET THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
ADVANTAGE
ALUMNI BENEFITS AND CAREER SUPPORT

Through the MS in Information Science: Machine Learning program, you can join the
University of Arizona's worldwide alumni network, which will grant you access to a plethora
of resources for career advancement, including career support services. With an impressive
92% employment rate, the university organizes career fairs on campus every semester,
providing valuable networking opportunities for students.

BEAR DOWN
LIFELAB
NETWORK

The Bear Down Network is an online,
campus-wide directory of Wildcats, or fellow
University of Arizona alumni. This exclusive
resource features an alumni job board,
mentorship opportunities, university news,
communication channels and a chance to give
back to the University of Arizona community.
An initiative of Student Engagement and Career
Development, LifeLab acts as an on-demand,
personalized career guidance platform to help
learners discover their strengths and build
career momentum with relevant resources on
resume-building, writing cover letters, building
LinkedIn profiles and more.

WILDCAT MENTOR
HANDSHAKE
SOCIETY

Handshake is the university’s official job board

The Wildcat Mentor Society is a transformative
and campus interviewing system. With this
program that connects global alumni with the
program, learners can access hiring opportunities,
university’s thought leaders of tomorrow.
career preparation resources and peer networks.
Through mutually beneficial mentorships, this
Alumni and existing learners can get approached
opportunity can help learners build strong
by employers from leading companies through
professional networks and get guidance from
their optimized profiles.
seasoned mentors.

GRADUATE
CENTER

The University of Arizona Graduate Center is a

resource for graduate and postdoctoral learners
aiming to enhance their academic and
professional success. It supports the next
generation of changemakers by facilitating their
recruitment to leading organizations and fostering
networking, collaboration, and engagement with
a diverse community network.

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GET THE GREAT LEARNING
ADVANTAGE
Great Learning is India’s leading professional learning and higher education platform. When you
choose this program, you also get access to Great Learning’s extensive pool of industry experts
and dedicated career assistance.

INDIA’S LEADING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

AND HIGHER EDUCATION PLATFORM

8.5 Mn+ 6200+ 170+ 2900+

Learners Industry Countries Companies
Expert Mentors Hire From Us

Best Ed-Tech Best Online

Company of the Year* Skills Provider*
*Indian Education Awards 2022 *Education Innovation Awards 2022
*EdTech Review Awards 2020

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 360° ASSISTANCE
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
(SOP) REVIEW
As part of our SOP review process,
we provide students with sample
SOP formats to guide them in
crafting a compelling statement in
order to attend the university.
APPLICATION
ASSISTANCE
Our counselors schedule video
calls with learners and assist
them in filling out the
application accurately.
I-20 AND VISA PROCESS
Great Learning assists students in
securing their Financial Guarantee
documents and applying for their
I-20 from the university. Additionally,
we offer support in scheduling VISA
appointments and preparing for
VISA interviews.*
*It must be noted that while Great Learning
provides detailed assistance with the help
of VISA experts to all the learners, the
grant or refusal of the visa is at the sole
discretion of the Embassy, and Great
Learning or the University of Arizona is
neither involved in the process nor is liable
or responsible in any manner whatsoever
for any delay in processing or grant or
rejection of the visa application of any
applicant by the Embassy, which reserves
the right to ask for further documentation
and to refuse the visa application.
PRE-COURSE WORK
The program team at Great Learning has
created pre-course work to allow learners to
brush up their understanding of Python,
Statistics, and other related concepts before
program commencement. This helps
students establish a solid foundation and
effectively manage the program's demands.
COMPLIMENTARY LEARNING
PACKAGE WITH NEW-AGE TOOLS
Great Learning offers a comprehensive
learning package that includes modules on
cutting-edge analytics platforms, SQL
fundamentals, Cloud Computing, and more,
providing learners with a competitive
advantage in the job market.
EXTRA SESSIONS WITH
INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Great Learning's program team conducts
additional doubt-clearing sessions with
industry experts to provide learners with
practical and in-depth knowledge. Please
note that the core curriculum classes are
taught by the University of Arizona faculty.
ENHANCED LEARNING
EXPERIENCE
The program managers keep a track of the
learners' progress via the online Learning
Management System and guide them
throughout the process.
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