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Table 1. Programs and specializations

Name Specialization Database

Specialization

Ball State No

Bentley No

Brigham-Young University (BYU) No

BYU-Hawaii No

BYU-Idaho No

Capella Yes No

Drexel Yes Yes

Florida State University Yes No

Georgia Southern No

George Mason University Yes No

Hawaii at Manoa No

Houston No

Indiana University Yes No

Indiana University Purdue University at
Indianapolis Yes No

Macon State Yes Yes

New Jersey Institute of Technology Yes No

Northern Alabama Yes No

Pace University No

Pennsylvania College of Technology Yes No

Purdue University Yes Yes

Purdue University - Calumet Yes Yes

Rochester Institute of Technology Yes Yes

Southern Alabama Yes Yes

State University of New York (SUNY)
Morrisville

No

Towson University No

University of Baltimore No

University of Cincinnati-Clermont No

USCS No

ment, systems analysis and design, and database management. We felt these areas fit the
requirements of our customers in industry who hire our students.
Students also had an interest in these areas, as indicated by our fourth year elective
course enrollments (18-25 students). In the Spring 2001 senior-level data warehousing
elective, all 18 students indicated an intention to get a database job, while in the Fall 2001
semester, 20 out of 26 students in the DBA course planned to get a job in the database area.

Need for a Database Track
The same data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Hecker, 2001, p. 9) indicated there
were 106,000 jobs for database administrators (DBAs) in 2000, with a projected 176,000
openings to fill by the year 2010. In addition to DBAs, there are also database professionals
who specialize in database architecture and database programming.