Hi All, I'm confused between MS in Business Analytics or MS in Data Science.

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I had CS major in undergrad and I'm currently working as a software engineer since 2020. I really enjoyed and liked coding in the beginning but now I'm fed up with it. I wanna move to a more managerial position but still don't want to give up coding completely.   
    
Please suggest me what course do go for to have good balance of coding/management. The problem I see in Business analytics is that after doing it I might not get another hardcore coding roles if I wanted to. But if I do Data science, I'll not be moving away from coding instead going deeper into it, so both of these have drawbacks. Which should I choose.

Amol Borkar · Answer

Yea, I'm leaning more towards DS since you get paid more on average and get diverse job roles as compared to BA/DA. Thanks.

Saumil Mishra · Answer

Hi i am 2021 pass-out, i have been doing this research for past 15 days
So there is no escape from programming as such. You have to do python and r , maybe SQL too.
Data science is a broad field. You have to apply python for data cleaning and gathering data, maybe in computational theory too.
In DA programming is used for plotting graphs in Data visualization.
Plus both feilds have ML in it. So there will be code.
Decide as in
From ms in DS you have options to many career options
While DA will make you a bit restricted

Hi All, I'm confused between MS in Business Analytics or MS in Data Science.

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