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MSc Business Analytics

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    MSc 1 year full-time

Course 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.

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.

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Student Destinations

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.

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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