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Business Analytics
The business analytics track of the Oregon State MBA program provides balanced training on both the business and technical aspects of analytics.
Coursework
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.
Core 1: MBA
| BA 513 | Business Legal Environment | 3 |
| BA 514 | Operations Management | 3 |
| BA 515 | Managerial Decision Tools | 3 |
| BA 516 | Creating Values in Exchange | 3 |
| BA 517 | Markets and Valuation | 3 |
Core-2: MBA
| BA 528 | Financial and Cost Analysis | 3 |
| BA 540 | Corporate Finance | 3 |
| BA 550 | Leadership in teams & Organizations | 3 |
| BA 555 | Practical Business Analysis | 3 |
| BA 561 | Supply Chain Management | 3 |
| BA 569 | Advanced Strategic Management | 3 |
| BA 572 | Advanced Information Systems | 3 |
| BA 590 | Marketing Management | 3 |
| MGMT 559 | Managing Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibiity | 3 |
Business Analytics Coursework
| BANA 560 | Data Analytics for Competitive Advantage | 3 |
| BANA 570 | Data Management | 3 |
| BANA 571 | Data Exploration and Visualization | 3 |
| BANA 572 | Machine Learning & Text Mining for Business | 3 |
| BANA 577 | Integrated Business Analytics Project | 3 |
Business Analytics Required Elective Coursework
| NA | Advisor-approved graduate business course | 3 |
Learning Outcomes
MBA Business Analytics Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the MBA in Business Analytics will be able to:
- 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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