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The first cohort of 5th Year Master of Information and Data Science students graduated in August 2020. 5th Year MIDS is a degree pathway for newly minted UC Berkeley graduates with an interest in a professional data science program.

“It was important to me to be able to learn through a hands-on approach,” said Chelsea Shu, MIDS ’20. “5th Year MIDS addressed this by offering a collaborative environment with a project-focused curriculum.

Changran Hu (MIMS ’21) spent the summer of 2020 as a data science intern at Microsoft. 

Changran shares a typical day in his internship and how the experience changed his career interests: “Before the internship, I wanted to be a software engineer focused on ML. Now I want to do more research; I want to be an applied scientist doing research about NLP.”