Certificate in Business Analytics

A certificate in business analytics allows one to analyze data from any industry including manufacturing, service, health, government and nonprofit. INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (https://informs.org)) defines analytics as "the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions." With this certificate, students learn quantitative tools that help build descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive models.

A student must complete 12 credit hours including the following:

DS/FIN 675Spreadsheet Modeling for Decision Making3
Select three of the following elective courses for a total of 9 credit hours9
MIS 600
Database Management Systems
MIS 750
Business Intelligence and Analytics
MKT 403
Marketing Research
FIN 450
Applied Financial Analysis
ACCT 560
Accounting Information Systems
ECON 403
Business and Economics Forecasting
ECON 731
Applied Econometrics I
Total Credit Hours12