u/michaelnovati replied ·
Not related to the programs, but the two roles are fairly different. Data Scientists often have PhD backgrounds or spent several years doing analysis before become full blown "Data Scientists". Data Analysts run queries, produce reports, answer business-related questions. My brother is a principal data analyst at a top game company (formerly at Riot, now at Epic), so there are parallel career trajectories for both. But data scientist is often a slightly more prestigious position.
Data Science is more of an academic pursuit of discovering/deriving innovative results from data. You might be helping with prepare data for machine learning, you might be running scientific experiments (or supporting others doing experiments and making sure they are done using a scientific process), you might be using data to figure out what problems to even solve.
I'm not sure if these programs map to the industry definitions and have nothing to comment at all on these programs, but it's something to consider if you are trying to understand future jobs.