Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics

The Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics offers students the opportunity to delve into business analytics while earning their MBA degree.

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the Certificate in Business Analytics will:

• Understand how analysis fits into the broader agenda of management.
• Assess the value of data-driven decision-making as well as its limitations.
• Evaluate the cost of data and analysis, and when the benefits of improved business decisions make this cost worth bearing.
• Distinguish and work with different kinds of data in a business setting.
• Construct and demonstrate analysis using programming-based tooling within a business context.
• Classify different kinds of analysis/tools and be able to evaluate which is appropriate for different business problems.
• Design and create analysis based on advanced topics and apply these tools to realistic business problems.
• Create their own analysis and demonstrate the application of the above content to practical scenarios.

Requirements

To earn the Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics, students must complete a total of 15 units as follows:

Required Courses

• QST IS 737 Decision Making with Data (3 units)
• Choose one of the following:
  • QST IS 834 Business Analytics in Practice (3 units)
    or
  • QST QM 877 Intro to Python Bootcamp (1.5 units) and QST QM 878 Deep Learning with Python Bootcamp (1.5 units)

Elective Courses

Choose three courses from the following:

• QST IS 841 Data Mining (3 units)
• QST IS 843 Big Data (3 units)
• QST IS 860 Business Analytics Consulting (3 units)
• QST IS 889 Data Management (3 units)
• QST MK 842 Machine Learning (3 units)

Academic Standards

For the certificate to be conferred, a student must achieve a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 2.70 (on a 4.0 scale). Students are not permitted to take additional units beyond the certificate program in order to improve grades (CGPA) or restart enrollment, nor can they withdraw and re-enroll.

Certificate Completion

To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics, students must:

• Successfully complete all required courses, for a total of 15 units.
• Have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.70.
• Have no “I” grades or no “MG” grades in courses counting toward the certificate.
• Only up to 9 units of the certificate program may also be applied toward the MBA degree.