Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
Making effective decisions is crucial in today’s business world. This course will develop the skills that you need to analyse complex business challenges and make decisions that have a positive impact. You do not need to have studied data or analytics before to study this course.
You’ll build up your analytical and technical skills during the course, starting with the fundamentals and progressing to learn about complex analytical models, decision-making and carrying out your own independent research.
We use our links with industry to bring guest lecturers to the course and you’ll work with real-world data sets to put the skills you learn into practice. Working with industry experts during the course means that you’ll develop your knowledge of working with stakeholders to understand their needs.
For the project dissertation, you can choose to work with an organisation to get more industry experience and apply the theory from the course to a real-world challenge.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in any subject.
You’ll graduate with the skills that you need for a career in the field of business analytics. During the course you’ll gain hands-on experience with Python, SQL, Tableau and optimisation solvers. You’ll also gain communication and leadership skills to enhance your decision-making ability in data-driven environments, making you highly employable after graduation.
Our careers and employability teams are here to support you with any career related questions. You'll have access to career appointments, a wide range of workshops, and up-to-date resources to help you achieve your full potential.
Core modules:
Fundamentals of Business and Management
Probability and Statistics
Mathematical Modelling for Decision-Making
Programming for Business Analytics
Advanced Analytics: Econometrics and Forecasting
Data Mining and Visualisation
Decision Support Systems
Database Management and Governance
Business Analytics in Practice
Capstone Project for Business Analytics
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