Business Analytics (Undergraduate Certificate)

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BUSINESS ANALYTICS CERTIFICATE

An interdisciplinary team of faculty offers a 20-credit hour undergraduate certificate in Business Analytics. This certificate program is designed to equip students with technical and critical thinking skills required to make informed data-driven business decisions. Various descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics techniques and their application in different business disciplines will be covered in this program. Students will be able to conduct exploration of complex data and create visualizations and interactive dashboards to effectively communicate their findings. Heavy use of quantitative modeling and analysis techniques throughout the program will help students to make optimal and robust decisions in a business environment. Students will work with programming languages. Experiential training business intelligence tools will equip students with skills that will be invaluable for their career.

CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS:

Required Courses:

BSAD 153 - Introduction to Business Data Analytics Credit(s): 1
BSAD 353 - Information Management and Data Analytics Credit(s): 3
BSAD 416 - Business Analytics Credit(s): 3
OR BSAD 516G - Business Analytics Credit(s): 3
CS 170 - Introduction to Computer Science I Credit(s): 4
STAT 220 - Fundamentals of Data Science Credit(s): 3
STAT 320 - Data Visualization Credit(s): 3
OR STAT 322 - Intermediate Data Science Credit(s): 3

And One of the Following Courses:

ACCT 367 - Accounting Information Systems Credit(s): 3
BSAD 406 - Corporate Finance Credit(s): 3
BSAD 414 - Digital Marketing and Analytics Credit(s): 3
BSAD 454 - Global Supply Chain Management Credit(s): 3
OR BSAD 554G - Global Supply Chain Management Credit(s): 3