Full-time or part-time MBA

Business Analytics

Program Details

Location:

Online, Portland Hybrid, Corvallis

Degree Type:

MBA

Overview

Business Analytics

The business analytics track of the Oregon State MBA program provides balanced training on both the business and technical aspects of analytics. This prepares you for jobs across all industries as companies leverage the importance of data science in day-to-day decision-making.

You’ll work directly with corporate leadership on sponsored projects that bear solutions to existing challenges in their companies. You’ll interface and build your network with some of the region’s top businesses all while learning and collaborating with a diverse and dynamic cohort of students.

Why An OSU MBA

Study Abroad

Flexible Learning Formats

Earn an Oregon State MBA fully online, in person or hybrid. We’re Oregon’s top-rated part-time MBA because we offer the flexibility working professionals need.

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Student organizations and clubs

Industry-Driven Programming

Our business graduate degrees have 10 custom learning tracks, developed in close consultation with our industry advisory boards for leading, forward-thinking business skills and knowledge for you.

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Scholarship

AACSB International

Oregon State has accreditation with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) — the global quality standard for business education. Only 5% of the world’s business schools have earned this distinction.

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Careers

Prestigious Alumni

You’re joining a network of more than 35,000 Oregon State business alumni at leading companies around our region and the world, such as Amazon, Google, Daimler Truck, Boeing, Nike, Starbucks, Samaritan Healthcare and Portland General Electric.

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What You'll Learn

  • You’ll lead projects and learn several data-analytic tools in order to integrate information technologies with data science methods to extract value from data.
  • You’ll communicate outcomes and strategies across your organization and open discussions for data-driven business decisions.
  • You’ll identify opportunities, needs and constraints for data analytics within organizational contexts and compose analytic tools and concepts to create innovative data-analytic solutions.

Why I Chose OSU

"Understanding the business and how our work fits in requires a broad knowledge base beyond analytics that my MBA provided. The learning never stops, so I’m also involved in the OSU Business Analytics advisory council and as an MBA instructor to help keep me sharp."

Dan Pitluck

MBA ‘18

A Mission to Advance the Field of Business Analytics

Research and problem-solving that benefit business and community as well as advance the field of business analytics for our students and faculty is core to the OSU Center for Business Analytics.

At the center, we are thought leaders in business analytics, accomplishing our goals through sponsored projects, community training and faculty research.

Our MBA researchers are a critical link to theory and practice, designing actual results-driven business projects, putting data science into practice, and expanding expertise in using analytical methods to translate organizational data into business opportunities. Each year, the center runs symposia and community bootcamps for practicing professionals in business analytics.

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