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.
Overview
Business analytics provides balanced training on both the business and technical aspects of analytics. These skills and knowledge prepare 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.
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.
Program statistics
Job placement rate for graduates of the OSU MBA graduate program
ranked Oregon business program
Industry insiders on our advising council
Learning outcomes for the MBA and certificate
Integrate information technologies with data science methods to extract value from data sets
Think critically about the business implications, meaningfulness and applicability of observed data patterns and analytical inferences
Identify opportunities, needs and constraints for data analytics within organizational contexts
Select appropriate analytic tools for specific managerial issues
Compose data-analytic tools and concepts to create innovative data-analytic solutions
Demonstrate proficiency with several data-analytic tools
Communicate clearly and persuasively to audiences with various backgrounds
Provide leadership in analytics teams and projects
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Ways to attend
Attend classes in Austin Hall, the $50 million, 100,000-square-foot building with 5 research centers, a marketing research suite, 10 classrooms, 23 computer- and teleconference-equipped project rooms, a 250-seat auditorium, a café and faculty offices.
Study from anywhere and earn one of our 100% online, fully AACSB-accredited business degrees. Nationally top-ranked for online learning, our classes are taught by business faculty who are known for research excellence and industry experience.
Experience a flexible blend of online coursework and in-person sessions. In-person meetings are held at the Robertson Collaborative Life Sciences Building on Portland's South Waterfront, typically scheduled on a weekday evening from 6 to 9 p.m.
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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 and Applied AI.
At the center, we are thought leaders in business analytics, accomplishing our goals through sponsored projects, community training and faculty research.
Our graduate student 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 boot camps for practicing professionals in business analytics.
Take your skills to the next level
Deepen your understanding and explore specialized training with College of Business Continuing & Professional Education courses.
