Big Data Education

According to me, SAS has more opportunities at freshers level, so you can get opportunities to work as a trainee with MNCs whereas in SAP it's a bit difficult to enter at freshers level. Secondly, it totally depends on your interest what kind of technology drives you more.

I am not sure about Manipal University but software that are used for data analytics include R, SAS, and python. R is very easy to learn and you can get it for free. It also has a good supportive community.

Hi Shahrukh,
You must check the websites and write to the departments of different universities to see if they are currently or will in future pursue research work in data analytics. Some of the universities you can consider are Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Columbia University, MIT, NYU, UT Austin, Indiana University, University of Chicago, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, and McGill University.

If you have relevant experience as Software Engineer or Domain Specialist or Business Analyst then PG certification in Big Data & Analytics is a good course which will help you to get better career opportunities. Freshers may have face challenges in getting entry into industry because of lack of experience.

Let me tell you all these courses have a good future. Amongst the list Cloud Computing and Data Analytics slightly more demanding.
To pursue Data Analytics following key skills you should haveAnalytical and mathematical skills; knowledge of database types; familiarity with data warehousing and data manipulation; experience working with various computer programming languages.
Whereas, for Big Data someone should have knowledge on Java, basic UNIX and basic SQL.