Minor in business analytics
This minor program will enable business students who are not majoring in business analytics to study business analytics and enhance their ability to interpret business data and understand how to utilize it in making decisions.
Today’s global marketplace continues to evolve at a fast pace as emerging technologies disrupt industries ranging from healthcare to finance to retail. These conditions are magnified as geopolitical and economic forces are in constant flux, thus creating a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment dependent on analytical skills to interpret big data into usable business information.
Various professions, including accounting, finance and supply chain, advocate for greater development of cutting-edge business analytical skills for the modern workplace.
Required courses
- BSAN 326: Database Management Systems (Not open to students with credit in IST 326)
- BSAN 440: Foundation in Business Analytics (Not open to students with credit in IST 495)
Electives
Choose 3 from the following options:
- BSAN 320: Fundamentals of Application Development
- BSAN 325: Systems and Analysis Design
- BSAN 412: HR Management Analytics
- BSAN 415: Data Analysis and Forecasting
- BSAN 418: Modeling and Risk Analysis
- BSAN 420: Data Visualizations in Business
- BSAN 430: Marketing Analytics
- BSAN 450: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
- BSAN 465: Customer Relationship Management
- BSAN 480: Business Analytics Capstone
- Business 599: Internship in Business Analytics
Recent published research shows that many companies understand almost every graduate can build a spreadsheet, but few graduates can delve into the spreadsheet and data to determine what the numbers really mean and apply that knowledge.
This minor program will enhance students’ ability to do this in a way that helps the business to make better, data-driven decisions. In addition, the minor will appear on transcripts, thus showing potential employers that the student has a working knowledge of business analytics.
Required courses
- BSAN 326: Database Management Systems (Not open to students with credit in IST 326)
- BSAN 440: Foundation in Business Analytics (Not open to students with credit in IST 495)
Electives
Choose 3 from the following options:
- BSAN 320: Fundamentals of Application Development
- BSAN 325: Systems and Analysis Design
- BSAN 412: HR Management Analytics
- BSAN 415: Data Analysis and Forecasting
- BSAN 418: Modeling and Risk Analysis
- BSAN 420: Data Visualizations in Business
- BSAN 430: Marketing Analytics
- BSAN 450: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
- BSAN 465: Customer Relationship Management
- BSAN 480: Business Analytics Capstone
- Business 599: Internship in Business Analytics
Recent published research shows that many companies understand almost every graduate can build a spreadsheet, but few graduates can delve into the spreadsheet and data to determine what the numbers really mean and apply that knowledge.
This minor program will enhance students’ ability to do this in a way that helps the business to make better, data-driven decisions. In addition, the minor will appear on transcripts, thus showing potential employers that the student has a working knowledge of business analytics.