The MS Business Analytics is a 33 credit hours program. The breakdown of core and elective courses and total credit hours is given below. Advanced Research Methods course of 3 credit hours is compulsory for all students in the program.

Core Courses

Six core courses have been proposed for this program. The rationale behind having these courses is the requirement of providing complete flavor of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics to students to enable them to apply knowledge and skills gained to any business context and environment. Core courses cover major topics like applied multivariate statistics, business intelligence, predictive analytics, time series analysis, decision models and optimization techniques.

Elective Courses

The elective courses are related to topics like Human Resource (HR) Analytics, Customer Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Operations Analytics and Financial Analytics. Other elective courses will be added to the program.

Reasrch Thesis

This program requires students to undertake research thesis of 06 credit hours to be done over two semester period. Students will have to engage with an organization during the research phase in order to demonstrate successful application of knowledge gained during the coursework to real world business scenarios involving analytical decision making. The thesis will be done individually under supervision of a faculty member.

Eligibility Criteria