Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
Advancement to Candidacy
No course list published for this category.
Capstone and Culminating Experience
6 unitsNo course list published for this category.
Electives
9 units- ACCTG 621 - Accounting Information Systems
- ACCTG 673 - Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Development
- B A 640 - Financial Reporting and Analysis
- B A 642 - Statistical Analysis
- B A 649 - Business Analytics
- BDA 603 - Smart Cities and Sustainability
- BDA 696 - Processing and Modeling Big Data
- BDA 797 - Research
- BDA 798 - Special Study
- BIOMI 568 - Bioinformatics
- CS 503 - Scientific Database Techniques
- CS 514 - Database Theory and Implementation
- CS 549 - Machine Learning
- CS 577 - Principles and Techniques of Data Science
- CS 581 - Computational Linguistics
- LING 581 - Computational Linguistics
- CS 653 - Data Mining
- CS 660 - Algorithm Analysis and Design
- ECL 560 - Literature in the Digital Age
- ECL 562 - Digital Methods in Literary Studies
- GEOG 580 - Data Management for Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 581 - Data Visualization
- GEOG 583 - Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices
- GEOG 584 - Geographic Information Systems Applications
- GEOG 593 - GIS for Business Location Decisions
- GEOG 683 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 780 - Seminar: Remote Sensing of Environment
- LING 571 - Computational Corpus Linguistics
- LING 583 - Statistical Methods in Text Analysis
- MATH 524 - Linear Algebra
- MIS 515 - Programming for Data-Driven Applications
- MIS 585 - Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Management
- MIS 649 - Business Analytics
- MIS 687 - Secure Enterprise Networking and Mobile Technologies
- MIS 691 - AI for Decision Support
- MIS 720 - AI and Big Data
- MIS 748 - Time Series Analysis for Business Forecasting
- MIS 753 - Global Supply Chain Analytics
- MIS 760 - AI/Machine Learning for Cyber Intelligence and Defense
- P H 602 - Biostatistics
- P H 700A - Seminar in Data Analysis Using R
- SOC 607 - Advanced Quantitative Methods: Core Course
- SOC 730 - Seminar in Social Institutions
- STAT 550 - Applied Probability
- STAT 551A - Probability and Mathematical Statistics
- STAT 610 - Linear Regression Models
Required Core Courses
12 units- BDA 572 - Python Scripting for Social Science
- LING 572 - Python Scripting for Social Science
- GEOG 582 - Introduction to GIS Programming
- BDA 594 - Big Data Science and Analytics Platforms
- GEOG 594 - Big Data Science and Analytics Platforms
- BDA 602 - Machine Learning Engineering
- MIS 686 - Enterprise Database Management
Research
3 unitsThis checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2025-26 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.