2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Badge in Database Management
The College of Computing's database management badge (not a degree or certificate) is designed to prepare students to accomplish the following:
- Create relational and nonrelational databases.
- Utilize computational methods for knowledge discovery in bioinformatics and medicine.
- Describe challenges posed by clinical information systems.
- Create visualizations for complex data sets.
- Tune the performance of relational database management systems.
- Utilize emerging nonrelational databases such as object-oriented and XML databases.
Admission
Completion of a bachelor's degree and evidence of object-oriented programming skills are required for admission.
Program Location
Classes are offered in-person in the late afternoon or evening in downtown Grand Rapids.
Requirements
The database management badge is comprised of three courses (nine credits).
Students must take:
AND two of the following: