Major in Business Intelligence and Analytics
Today’s world requires flexible and critical thinkers. This program will equip students with the analytical and quantitative skills necessary to transform data into the insights that fuel intelligent, data-driven decision making in business.
Building Your Analytical Toolbox
Students will develop a wide range of analytical skills and tools that can answer and provide insight to key business questions. They will learn the key processes that make up descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analysis that will ultimately support business decision making. As part of this program, students will learn how to use industry standard tools such as Excel, SQL, Power BI and more to assist at every level of the analytical process from data collection to sharing and acting on key insights.
Major Requirements
A student majoring in business intelligence and analytics must complete the business core and five additional courses in the following manner (maintaining a C or better):
Required Courses
- BUS 320 Survey of Business Analytics
- MTH 348/ECO 418 Econometrics
Electives: Three full-course credits
- BUS 310 Business Analysis Using MS Excel
- BUS 325 Microsoft Excel With Power Query
- BUS 326 Introduction to SQL
- BUS 327 Data Visualization with Power BI
- BUS 328 Introduction to Analytics with R
- IS 380 Foundations of Data Science with Python
- IS 423 Data Base Management Systems
- CS 146 Intro to Visual Analytics
- CS 150 Introduction to Programming in Python or CS 220 Computer Science I