From information technology to the pharmaceutical industry, companies use SAS software to manage the enormous amounts of data they are collecting and processing. Nowadays, SAS has become a standard means for managing and making sense of raw data. SAS is used worldwide to enable data analyses in order to make business decisions.

  Qualify for in-demand positions as SAS programmers in pharmaceutical companies, financial services industry, and clinical research organizations.

  Prepare for the SAS certification exams to become SAS Certified Base Programmer and SAS Certified Advanced Programmer. Plus, prepare for Oracle Certified Professional Exam 1Z0-001.

SAS Curriculum

	MA375 Introduction to SAS - 3 credit hours
	MA377 SAS Programming - 3 credit hours
	CIS331 Database Programming (Oracle) - 3 credit hours
	MA379 Advanced SAS - 3 credit hours
	12 Total Credit Hours

SAS Career Program is an accelerated job-training program that is designed for professionals working in related fields, career changers, and recent college graduates. It concentrates on the use of the SAS system for the statistical analysis of data and the programming capabilities of SAS software.

The program consists of four courses, which is designed to build up your SAS skills from ground up. The program is normally completed in 192 class hours.

For more information, or to register for the SAS curriculum please contact the KSI office:

phone: 847.679.3135

email: office@ksi.edu

address:

KSI
3420 Main Street
Skokie, IL 60076

Course Descriptions>>

  MA375 - Introduction to SAS

An introductory SAS course for beginners with no programming experience or SAS knowledge. The course focuses on navigating the graphical user interface (GUI) to attain various routine tasks such as accessing local data sources, creating user-defined formats, generating descriptive statistics and tabular summary reports.

   MA377 - SAS Programming

An intermediate-level course that teaches how to write SAS programs to accomplish typical data processing tasks and use statistical analyses to solve business problems, such as conducting T-tests, performing ANOVA and regression analysis, producing Shewhart charts, etc.

  CIS331 - Database Programming (SQL & Oracle PL/SQL)

An introduction to modern database management systems.

  MA379 - Advanced SAS

An advanced course for experienced SAS programmers that focuses on how to manage SAS data set input and output, working with different data types, and performing data manipulations and transformations.