The university I work at just reorganized the administrative structure to put institutional research at it's core. Involved in that mission is data mining, stat

The university I work at just reorganized the administrative structure to put institutional research at it's core. Involved in that mission is data mining, statistics and assessment efforts. We (the IR folk) have been pushing data for years and it's just recently been grabbing the proper attention at the decision making/VP/COO administrator level. I perceive the ability to perform predictive modeling on large data sets being increasingly valuable. E.G., A basic example would be to score how likely a particular student from a set of 4000 high school seniors in a county will be to enroll at one university and achieve a degree. If you agree: learn R, SAS, SPSS and SQL.