# Professor Vasant Dhar comments on the increasing job opportunities involving big data

1 Faculty News May 14, 2016 ![BusinessBecause logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/BusinessBecause_logo.jpg?itok=HoBjU3u5)>

Excerpt from [BusinessBecause](http://www.businessbecause.com/news/business-finance-masters/3962/duke-fuqua-launches-big-data-degree) -- "'Data is their business. It's the growth path for all of them,' said [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), NYU Stern professor of business and data science, and editor of the Big Data journal. 'The advice I give students these days is to take as many courses as possible that require working with real data,' he added."

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