Choosing a Faculty Advisor
After you’ve declared the major, we want to connect you with a data science faculty advisor. Faculty advisors are experts in their fields and are valuable resources for discussing academic interests and applying data science to your future career path. For example, you might want to speak with a faculty advisor about some of the following:
- Academic areas of interest
- Applications of data science
- Career paths and your professional goals
- Opportunities to consider
- Connections with other people or groups on campus
- Graduate school
- Building skills needed in areas of interest
- Current research projects
- Courses they will be teaching throughout the year
As a side note, the faculty advisor's role does not include fielding questions about major requirements, degree progress, course substitutions, or policies. For those types of questions, please reach out to our datasciencemajor-inquiries [at] lists.stanford.edu (student services team) at any time.
How to Choose a Faculty Advisor
Please complete the Faculty Advisor Match Survey before the end of the quarter when you declare the major. We will use the information you share in this form and our knowledge of faculty availability to identify your advisor.
In the first half of the following quarter, we will send an email to connect you with your new faculty advisor and recommend that you find a time to meet.
If you encounter any questions or challenges, please reach out to our datasciencemajor-inquiries [at] lists.stanford.edu (student services team).