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 Sciences1) 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.

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Program Requirements

An overall grade point average of at least 2.000 for all courses comprising the certificate program, and no grade below C, is required to earn the certificate.

A student must complete 12 credit hours including the following:

Course Title Hours
BSAN/FIN 675Analytics Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets3
Select three courses from the following9
FIN 450
Financial Modeling
MKT 403
Marketing Research
BSAN 710
Python Programming for Business
FIN 790A
Finance Analytics: Contemporary and Traditional Topics
MIS 600
Database Management Systems
BSAN 775
Introduction to Business Analytics
BSAN 734
Introduction to Data Mining and Machine Learning
BSAN/MIS 750
Data Visualization
BSAN/DS 760
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
ACCT 580
Data Analytics for Accountants
Any course 600 or above with director approval
Total Credit Hours12