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  • DeadlineStudy Details: MSc 1 year full-time

Masters Degree Description

Develop your understanding of business analytics. You’ll graduate with the skills you need to start a career specialising in data and decision analysis.

This course is for graduates who want to pursue a career in business analytics.

How can companies use ‘big data’ to gain business insight? This course will teach you how to convert data into knowledge. Get hands-on practical experience using the latest business intelligence software and interpreting real data.

This course includes guest lectures from industry experts, and a unit co-delivered by a specialist from IBM.

Highly-ranked

We are one of the UK’s leading business schools. Our undergraduate courses ranked 1st in the UK for Marketing, 2nd for Accounting and Finance, and 3rd for Business and Management Studies (The Complete University Guide 2026). Our master’s courses ranked in the top 10 in the UK for Business Analytics and Marketing (QS Business Master’s Rankings 2026).

Entry Requirements

2:1 or above (or its international equivalent). Your degree can be in any discipline but you must have studied a subject with high quantitative content.

You will be better suited to this course if you have studied business or management, or studied a subject with high quantitative content, such as:

  • mathematics/statistics
  • computer science
  • engineering
  • physics
  • a quantitative social science

If you are a UK student and completed your undergraduate degree abroad, your qualification must be equivalent to a 2:1 or above.

Programming experience

Previous experience of computer programming is an advantage. You should include information about your quantitative and programming experience in your personal statement.

Work experience

In exceptional cases, relevant work experience may be a substitute for the degree requirement. You should have no more than three years’ relevant work experience.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

We give you the edge

We combine the latest research with many opportunities to apply it. This will help you stand out from the crowd. You'll develop key professional skills and work with our partner organisations on optional projects from day one.

Our graduates have a great employment record. Most go on to careers in a range of areas, start their own business or begin a PhD. 

Graduate career data

81% of our 2022 and 2023 graduates had accepted a job offer within three months of completing their degree.

Module Details

Semester 1

Compulsory units

  • Business statistics and forecasting
  • Databases and business intelligence
  • Optimisation and spreadsheet modelling

Semester 2

Compulsory units

  • Analytics in practice
  • Data mining and machine learning
  • Heuristics and simulation

Optional units

  • Advanced business forecasting
  • Advanced data visualisation
  • Independent study
  • Operations strategy
  • Project management

Summer

  • Dissertation in business analytics

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