Business Analytics Concentration

The MBA – Business Analytics concentration is approved to be offered this coming fall. The MBA-Business Analytics Concentration imparts the advanced analytical skills needed to dig deeper into organizational data and use it to make key business decisions. Not only will successful students graduate with a MBA-Business Analytics Concentration, but they will also earn a data analytics certificate setting them apart from other students with similar academic credentials. This is also a STEM-approved program. The STEM designation grants students three year OPT and students should be eligible to complete two semesters of Curricular Practical Training (CPT).

Prerequisite competencies:

1. Accounting: Principles of Accounting (Financial and Managerial)
2. Economics: Macroeconomics and Microeconomics
3. Finance: Principles of Finance
4. Database – a course in database management systems, preferably with SQL experience (for Business Analytics Concentration only). Students without this background can complete either:
   1. CSCI 503 – Database Concepts with a grade of “B” or higher
   2. CSCI 490 – Database Management Systems with a grade of “C” or higher

Master of Business Analtyics Core Courses

MBA 610 – Leadership and Organizational Behavior
MBA 618 – Finance Management
MBA 630 – Marketing Management and Planning
MBA 640 – Research for Decision Making
MBA 649 – Ethics and Legal Environment
MBA 650 – Operations Management and Systems Analysis
MBA 665 – Management of Information and Technology
MBA 670 – Accounting for Managers
MBA 700 – Business Strategy and Implementation
CSCI 523 – Statistical Methods for Business Analytics
CSCI 590 – Data Mining for Decision Making
CSCI 623 – Advanced Statistical Methods of Business Analytics
CSCI 690 – Data Visualization and Predictive Analytics