Case Study: National University builds employer‑valued, job‑ready analytics skills with SAS (OnDemand for Academics & Enterprise Guide)

National University brings SAS® into to the classroom to educate students today for the jobs of tomorrow

National University (NU), an accredited university with an immersive one-class-per-month curriculum, needed to ensure graduates—especially in its School of Health and Human Services—had the sophisticated analytics skills employers demand. The challenge was to standardize a classroom-ready, industry-grade analytics tool that faculty could teach and students could master across programs.

NU adopted SAS OnDemand for Academics and SAS Enterprise Guide, ran faculty workshops, and integrated SAS throughout introductory and advanced courses; IT found deployment straightforward while professors led instruction. The result: students quickly gained real-world analytics skills (from pulling half‑million record datasets to visually building models), faculty relied on a gold‑standard tool with reduced IT burden, and program growth could put as many as 1,000 students using SAS within 18 months.

National University

Tyler Smith

Associate Professor and Program Lead