MS in Business Analytics
Total credits: 45.0
The MS in Business Analytics is designed for students who have an interest in quantitative methods, data analysis, and using computer programs to solve business problems.
Students learn how to access and analyze data for the purpose of improved business decision-making. This program prepares students to make good business decisions with fact-based insights and an understanding of business performance from a systems view, using statistical and quantitative analysis of data as well as explanatory and predictive modeling.
The program draws upon three traditional areas of business intelligence:
- statistics, to explore and uncover relationships in data;
- operations research, to develop mathematical models for planning and operations; and
- management information systems, to access and create databases that support the other two areas.
For additional information about the program, students should contact the Department of Decision Sciences.
Curriculum
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| Students complete fifteen (15) courses, for a total of 45.0 credits: | ||||
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| Operations Research | 6.0 Credits |
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| OPR 601 | Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | 3.0 | ||
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| OPR 620 | Operations Research I | 3.0 | ||
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| Statistics | 9.0 Credits |
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| STAT 601 | Business Statistics | 3.0 | ||
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| STAT 602 | Decision Sciences I | 3.0 | ||
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| STAT 698 | Special Topics: Business Data Mining* | 3.0 | ||
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| *Prerequisite is STAT 602. | ||||
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| Management Information Systems | 6.0 Credits | |||
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| MIS 630 | Interact Decision Support Systems* | 3.0 | ||
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| MIS 632 | Database Analysis & Design Business* | 3.0 | ||
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| Students select eight (8) of the following electives: | 24.0 Credits |
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| FIN 624 | Risk Management* | 3.0 | ||
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| FIN 642 | Business Conditions and Forecasting* | 3.0 | ||
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| ECON 601 | Managerial Economics | 3.0 | ||
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| ECON 650 | Business Strategy: Game Theory and Applications | 3.0 | ||
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| OPR 622 | Operations Research II | 3.0 | ||
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| OPR 624 | Advanced Mathematical Programming | 3.0 | ||
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| OPR 626 | System Simulation | 3.0 | ||
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| POM 601 | Operations Management | 3.0 | ||
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| POM 620 | Management of Manufacturing Firms | 3.0 | ||
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| POM 622 | Materials Management | 3.0 | ||
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| POM 624 | Management of Service Firms | 3.0 | ||
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| POM 625 | Advanced Supply Chain Management | 3.0 | ||
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| STAT 626 | Statistical Sampling | 3.0 | ||
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| STAT 628 | Regress and Correlation Analysis | 3.0 | ||
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| STAT 634 | Quality and Six-Sigma | 3.0 | ||
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| STAT 636 | Experimental Design | 3.0 | ||
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| *Students will need to have the prerequisite for this course waived with permission of the instructor.
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