The 21st century is the era of big data. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. It is estimated that 30% of this data comes from the health care industry. Saint Louis University's Master of Science (M.S.) in Biostatistics and Health Analytics will not only prepare students to handle this data but also to apply analytic techniques to answer important research questions related to health and health care. Students take courses in public health, the theory of biostatistics, methods of biostatistics and computing. Students finish by doing a capstone project under the direction of a faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Students with an interest in learning skills across a broad spectrum of biostatistics and data analytics can choose the traditional biostatistics concentration. Those who want to apply their skills on geospatial data can choose the geospatial health data analytics concentration. Both programs require a core set of material on biostatistics and analytics, and then each concentration has its own requirements for completion.<br><br>Graduates of SLU's M.S. in Biostatistics and Health Analytics will be prepared to work as a biostatistician, data scientist or data analyst. The number of students in the U.S. who have received master's degrees in biostatistics has increased by a factor of seven since 2000. Data scientists, biostatisticians and statisticians are often rated as among the nation's top jobs, measured in terms of salary and job satisfaction.