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Business Analytics

Business analytics provides balanced training on both the business and technical aspects of analytics. The College of Business offers an MBA and a graduate certificate in business analytics.

MBA (60 credits) 
Builds the skills to lead projects, communicate outcomes and strategies across organizations, compose analytic tools and concepts to create innovative data-analytic solutions.

Certificate (18 credits)
Offers technical skill such as data cleaning, data management, data mining, machine learning, text mining, and natural language processing. 

Coursework

Business Analytics coursework requirements

The information on this page is meant to give examples of the coursework in this program. Current students should refer to the OSU academic catalog for all official curriculum requirements.

MBA, Core 1
Course IDCourse Name15 Total Credits
BA 513Business Legal Environment3
BA 514Operations Management3
BA 515Managerial Decision Tools3
BA 516Creating Values in Exchange3
BA 517Markets and Valuation3

NOTE: Core-1 requirements may be waived if a candidate has a recent undergraduate major in business, or has completed equivalent coursework within an undergraduate business minor.

MBA, Core 2
Course IDCourse Name27 Total Credits
BA 528Financial and Cost Analysis3
BA 540Corporate Finance3
BA 550Leadership in teams & Organizations3
BA 555Practical Business Analysis3
BA 561Supply Chain Management3
BA 569Advanced Strategic Management3
BA 572Advanced Information Systems3
BA 590Marketing Management3
MGMT 559Managing Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibiity3
MBA, Business Analytics, coursework
Course IDCourse Name15 Total Credits
BANA 560Data Analytics for Competitive Advantage3
BANA 570Data Management3
BANA 571Data Exploration and Visualization3
BANA 572Machine Learning & Text Mining for Business3
BANA 577Integrated Business Analytics Project3

NOTE: Core-1 requirements may be waived if a candidate has a recent undergraduate major in business, or has completed equivalent coursework within an undergraduate business minor.

MBA, Business Analytics, elective requirements
Course IDCourse Name3 Total Credits
N/AAdvisor-approved graduate business course3
Certificate, Business Analytics, requirements
Course IDCourse Name18 Total Credits
BANA 560Data Analytics for Competitive Advantage3
BANA 570Data Management3
BANA 571Data Exploration and Visualization3
BANA 572Machine Learning & Text Mining for Business3
BA 572Advanced Information Systems3
N/AAdvisor Approved ElectiveMinimum 3
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