FICO® Educational Analytics Challenge: FAQ and Program Overview
Answers to key questions about FICO’s 12-week analytics challenge for students, including structure, skills needed, and promotional support.
FICO’s Educational Analytics Challenge
Empowering students through real-world analytics, mentorship, and responsible AI to build skills, confidence, and career pathways in data science and financial services.
Overview
Inspiring educators. Empowering students. Driving innovation.
The FICO Educational Analytics Challenge is designed to educate and empower the next generation of data scientists, particularly at institutions without formal data science programs. With mentorship from FICO data scientists, the program supports the development of university analytics curricula and strengthens partnerships within the HBCU Data Science Consortium.
The initiative provides students with hands-on experience in responsible AI and real-world analytics, while offering educators a scalable framework to integrate applied data science into their classrooms.
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Why Join the Challenge?
This challenge gets aspiring students from various backgrounds and majors involved in data science problems ensuring community representation in the data science field.
Expanding Reach: Who’s Joined the Challenge So Far
Seven universities and over 100 undergraduate and graduate students from across the nation participated in the challenge during its first two years.
Alabama A&M University and Drake State Community College participate in the FICO Educational Analytics Challenge
Watch past Alabama A&M University and Drake State Community College participants take on the FICO Educational Analytics Challenge. The challenge empowers students with hands-on experience in responsible AI and real-world data analytics. This innovative program connects students with FICO data scientist mentors, building the next generation of data professionals. See the impact firsthand as students and educators showcase how this initiative is transforming data science education.
“The FICO Analytics Challenge helped influence our data science minor here at Alabama A&M University by providing interest from folks outside of our traditional computer science or engineering areas.”
Dr. Andrew R. Scott, Professor and Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Alabama A&M University
Related Resources
FICO Expands Educational Analytics Challenge Program with Three New Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Educate Aspiring Data Scientists
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