Program Overview

Who is it for?

Choose the MSc Business Analytics programme to support your career progression if your aim is to generate and capture greater competitiveness in data-driven business. You’ll appreciate our technology-aided learning-by-doing teaching style, academic rigour and authentic experiential learning.

You don’t need previous experience of analytics skills, or the technology enablers needed to deploy them. Instead, you can join our pre-courses which equip you with the minimum knowledge, such as Python and R Programming, before you start your one year MSc Business Analytics Programme.

You’re likely to already have at least an upper second class degree, or the equivalent, in a subject that includes quantitative topics, such as accounting, biology, business administration/studies, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental studies, finance, hospitality management, human resources, information systems/technology, management, marketing, mathematics or psychology.

Studying the MSc Business Analytics enables you to deal with business problems by using different tools and methods on raw data, such as data visualisation and machine learning. I secured a role as a Technology Risk Consultant at EY.

I audit client IT systems, interview clients and review their data in order to analyse their technology risk. What Bayes taught me is more than academic; I learned how to transition from a student to a young professional.

- Mengjia Hang

Objectives

On our Master’s in Business Analytics programme you’ll develop a comprehensive set of skills and nurture the positive attributes essential to becoming a successful business analyst. You’ll learn the specialist, technical, skills of data analytics, and soft skills, such as effective persuasion, communication and business ethics, important for influencing people and leading organisations.

You’ll benefit from the distinctive experiential learning element of your business analytics MSc. Each year we work with industry partners creating tailored dissertation projects to suit your skills and interest and provide you with hands-on real-life work experience. You can choose from our available projects or find your own choice of industry partner. Your industry partner provides data and domain knowledge and plays an advisory role, while Bayes Business School experts give academic support.

Recent students have chosen from twenty projects offered by analytics consulting firms, finance and insurance companies and well-known retailers, including Bank of England, Ekimetrics, Government Actuary's Department, Rolls-Royce and Vodafone UK

We really appreciate being able to work with students from the Business School. They get involved in a variety of exciting projects (such as analysing workforce and mortality data) and provide us with fresh insights from this information.

Government Actuary’s Department, Partner in the Industry Partnership Programme

Working with students from Bayes Business School is great. It allows us to work on new projects and they bring a different skillset to the table with a fresh perspective that helps us look at problems through new lenses.

Vodafone UK, Partner in the Industry Partnership Programme