Overview

Students will acquire a set of practical data analytics skills including understanding patterns in data, applying analytical frameworks, constructing predictive models, analyzing social networks and discovering hidden relationships in data. Students will learn how to present data using modern visualization techniques, and will get acquainted with the state of the art data analytics software.

Career Opportunities

The great advantage of Business Analytics is that it is not industry-specific. Students will get conceptual and core knowledge necessary to be at the cutting edge of applying business data analytics techniques and concepts to a variety of business issues and problems across functional areas such as Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, and Human Resource Management; and industries such as Financial Services, Insurance, Capital Markets, Advertising, Market Research, Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail, and Real Estate, among others. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment in this area is projected to grow by 27 percent by 2022, much faster than the average for all occupations.