The Master of Science in Business Analytics is a 30-hour program that incorporates the complexities of decision-making using quantitative and qualitative data and covers timely topics including Data Management, Data Mining and Visualization, and Predictive Modeling. The MBA program with a concentration in business analytics is a 42-hour program that merges a practical experiential MBA with four additional classes and is designed for students who want to pursue careers related to big data, statistical modeling and predictive analytics.
The programs in the College of Business are accredited by AACSB and incorporate practical and experiential learning taught by instructors with decades of real-world relevant business experience. Many of our adjunct instructors manage multi-million dollar projects while teaching. Our Business Analytics students are working professionals in their field and are able to have immediate application of what they are learning. For international students it is a distinct advantage to attend class with currently working professionals in the field and the very businesses where they aspire to work. The Business Analytics program is part of the STEM-designated degree programs that qualify graduates for an optional practical training (OPT) extension of 17 months for a total of 29 months.
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, the United States may be facing a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 individuals with deep business analytic skills. There are a variety of career options across many industries with a graduate degree in Business Analytics including:
Chair and Assistant Professor of English Debra Romanick Baldwin, Ph.D., and Professor of Physics and recent Interim Dean of Constantin College Sally Hicks, Ph.D., have secured a $299,078 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support writing instruction at UD for the fall 2020 semester.
+ Read MoreHis first step was to enroll in physician’s assistant school at Baylor’s College of Medicine, a career trajectory to which he had aspired since his early childhood. Nowadays, Jonathan Cunningham, BA ’17, is dedicated to the vocational pursuit of comfort and healing at MD Anderson in Houston, among the largest cancer treatment centers in the U.S., where he was once a chemotherapy patient himself.
+ Read MoreDuring his Rome semester in 1991, Joseph Meaney, BA '93, with his friends (now Father) Kevin Cook, BA '94, and (now Texas State Representative and UD Trustee) Tan Parker, BA '93, attended a private Mass with Pope St. John Paul II. Several weeks earlier, they had hand-delivered a letter to the Swiss Guards outside St. Peter's requesting the Mass and including their contact information; at last, they'd received the phone call instructing them to be at the Bronze Gates at 5 a.m.
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