Business Analytics
Business analytics majors leverage data to create more efficient business processes and more accurate performance reporting—helping businesses compete globally. If you have a penchant for mathematics, statistics, modeling, or information systems, you should consider a major or minor in business analytics.
Academies to consider: Strategic Finance, Consumer Marketing, or Supply Chain
- Major requirements: Select 15 credit hours total including your “outside” courses.
- Minor requirements: A total of at least six credit hours are required.
- Major electives: Select at least five elective courses.
- Minor electives: If three required courses are completed, pick one course from the list of electives; if two required courses are completed, pick two courses from the list of electives.
- Outside courses: Select any two additional courses from the MBA Program outside of the business analytics major. The following general graduation requirement courses do not qualify as outside courses: A548, X507, X515, X516, and X517.
| Courses | Major | Minor | Electives | Outside Courses |
| BUS-K 507 Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling | Required | |||
| BUS-S 523 Data Warehousing: Concepts and Management | Required | |||
| BUS-K 579 Experimental Course in Decision Support Modeling, or For 2013 graduates only: BUS-K 513 An Introduction to Data Mining | Required | |||
| BUS-K 508 Spreadsheet Modeling for Finance |  | |||
| BUS-K 509 Spreadsheet Modeling for Marketing | | |||
| BUS-K 513 An Introduction to Data Mining | | |||
| BUS-K 515 Application Development with Visual Basics (VBA) | | |||
| BUS-A 545 Introduction to Financial Statements Analysis and Valuation | | |||
| BUS-A 546 Advanced Financial Statements Analysis & Valuation | | |||
| BUS-F 508 Real Options in Capital Budgeting | | |||
| BUS-F 525 Corporate Financial Risk Management | | |||
| BUS-F 526 Derivative Securities | | |||
| BUS-G 570 Thinking Strategically: Game Theory and Business Strategy | | |||
| BUS-M 503 Applied Marketing Research | | |||
| BUS-M 511 Marketing Performance and Productivity Analysis | | |||
| BUS-M 549 Marketing Intelligence Management | | |||
| BUS-M 574 Pricing Management | | |||
| BUS-P 506 Logistics and Distribution | | |||
| BUS-P 512 Revenue Management | | |||
| BUS-P 550 Business Process Design | | |||
| BUS-P 579 Experimental Course in Supply Chain & Operations | | |||
