According to a recent post in the Microsoft Careers JobsBlog the top three hottest new majors for a career in technology are

• Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing
• Business Intelligence/Competitive Intelligence
• Analytics/Statistics, specifically Web Analytics, A/B Testing and
  statistical analysis

Happily these are all strengths of the IT programs at UMBC. In fact, we have placed a large number of graduates at leading edge technology companies in the past few years, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, and Yahoo.

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