Master's in Business Analytics

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Our Master of Science in Business Analytics degree is expertly designed to emphasize practical, real-world education and promote work across disciplines. The online MSBA curriculum is comprised of three components: the Fundamentals, Core and Capstone courses. Consisting of 10 courses taken over five terms — each of which is divided into two sessions — the 30-credit-hour program is designed to be completed in 18 months. Upon graduation, you will be a proficient programmer in R, Python, and SQL, while experiencing an array of cutting-edge big data management and cloud analysis tools like Amazon SageMaker, Hadoop, Hive and Pig. These tools will allow you to confidently collect, manage, and visualize data, build models, and use this information to make better business decisions. Our MSBA program concludes with a capstone practicum course, where you will implement analytics solutions for a rotating set of companies, using real problems and real data.