ONLINE M.B.A. IN BUSINESS ANALYTICS specialization
With our online M.B.A. Business Analytics specialization, you can advance as a business analyst, financial analyst, digital marketing analyst and more.
You’ll explore innovative business processes and address problems using proven analytical strategies.
Complete 9 credits for the Business Analytics concentration. Or pursue 15 credits for the major and make your M.B.A. a STEM-designated degree.
With Your M.B.A. in Business Analytics, You Will:
- Visualize and Present Data: Collect and mine data and extrapolate it into easily understood charts or graphs. Effectively convey complex information to non-technical professionals.
- Model Scenarios: Employing predictive analytics, anticipate potential futures for an industry or individual company, allowing businesses to effectively prepare for the best and the worst.
- Forecast: Track trends and accurately predict the trajectory of a business or market’s performance.
- Make Data-Driven Decisions: Improve business decisions through insights supported by sound data and analysis. Ensure business decisions are informed by reliable data rather than guesswork and intuition.
Business Analytics Concentration or Major
Learn to integrate data science, business strategy and management science to optimize outcomes and develop predictive models for an organization or nonprofit. Complete nine credits for the Business Analytics concentration, or complete 15 credits for the Business Analytics major.
Sample Courses
ACCT 604 Database Design and Implementation - 3 Credits
Introduces the fundamentals of modern database concepts. Covers relational database design and implementation techniques, as well as the current relational database standard – the structured query language (SQL). Explore advanced topics such as big data analytics.
MISY 641 Data Mining for Business Analytics - 3 Credits
Introduces fundamental strategies and methodologies for data mining along with the concepts underlying them, and will provide hands-on experience with a variety of different techniques in a business setting. Students will learn to use data mining tools.
BUAD 621 Decision Analytics and Visualization - 3 Credits
Analytics leverages both the proliferation of data and the advancement of computational tools to bring a new level of sophistication to business decision making. As part of developing an analytic mind and skillset, this course teaches students to properly frame decision problems, represent and understand how to manage uncertainty inherent in those problems, manipulate large data sets using modern software to prescribe recommended actions, and to then compel organizational change through data visualizations.
With an online M.B.A. in Business Analytics, you can advance in several business roles that focus on analytics. Between 2021 and 2031, over 715,100 new jobs in business and financial occupations will become available in the U.S.
The Career Outcomes website reports what our graduates do, where they work and the salaries they make.
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AACSB
Accredited
$1,069
Cost per Credit
100%
Asynchronous