Oct 14, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Business Analytics MS


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With a Master of Science in business analytics from the School of Management, you’ll gain a combination of technical, managerial and communication skills, allowing you to rise to leadership positions in organizations worldwide.

Take advantage of the overwhelming demand for data analysts in every industry by focusing on the skills the employers want: data-driven decision-making, data visualization and business intelligence. Beyond technical skills, employers say storytelling is both the most critical and frequently missing skill in the analytics toolset. Storytelling is what turns data scientists into leaders who solve business problems.

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)


1. Think critically and solve problems effectively in professional environments.

  • Gain an understanding of the technical and managerial skills needed to develop and apply analytical tools to help make decisions involving complex systems.

2. Demonstrate proficiency in the concepts and practices related to business analytics.

  • Execute data analysis using multiple approaches as well as identify and perform statistical techniques and organize databases for analysis.

3. Function effectively in diverse and dynamic environments.

  • Apply (e.g., implementable) knowledge regarding strategies/tactics for applying analytical tools to marketing, financial decisions in a firm, the design, modeling, and optimization of supply chains, and how to develop research questions that can be answered using data science.
  • Graduates will be able to clearly delineate the steps needed to turn data into actionable intelligence that has the goal of impacting outcomes, in real-world environments.

4. Communicate effectively.

  • Graduates will be able to effectively interpret and communicate data and their analysis to constituencies at all levels of organizations.

Foundational Analytics Flexcore (6 credits)


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Total Credit Hours: 30


3.0 Degree GPA required

Instruction Method


  • In Person (100 percent of courses offered in person)

Full/Part Time Options


  • Full Time

Credits Required


  • 30 Hours

Time-To-Degree


  • 1 Year

Application Fee


  • $100

SED Statement


This program is officially registered with the New York State Education Department (SED).

Online programs/courses may require students to come to campus on occasion. Time-to-degree and number of credit hours may vary based on full/part time status, degree, track and/or certification option chosen. Time-to-degree is based on calendar year(s). Contact the department for details.

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