BBA or BS in Business to Master of Science in AI for Business Fast Track
About This Program
The Bachelor of Business Administration or Bachelor of Science in Business to Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence for Business Fast Track enables outstanding senior undergraduate students in the College of Business to satisfy degree requirements leading to Artificial Intelligence for Business MS while completing their undergraduate studies. Pathways are available from any undergraduate degree in the College that includes the required fast track foundations courses.
Associated Programs
For detailed information about the programs associated with this Fast Track, refer to their individual degree pages.
International Business BBA (Chinese)
International Business BBA (French)
International Business BBA (German)
International Business BBA (Korean)
International Business BBA (Russian)
International Business BBA (Spanish)
Admissions Criteria
An undergraduate Business student will apply:
- within 30 hours of completing a bachelor's degree
- upon completion of at least 30 hours at UTA, achieving an overall UTA GPA of 3.3 or better
- with an overall GPA of 3.3 or better in all college courses (at all schools), and
- with a UTA Business GPA of 3.3 or better.
Additionally, a candidate must have completed at UTA Arlington 12 hours of undergraduate fast track foundation courses with a minimum GPA of 3.5:
- ECON 3310 MICROECONOMICS or ECON 3312 MACROECONOMICS
- FINA 3313 BUSINESS FINANCE
- MANA 3318 MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
- BSTAT 3321 INTERMEDIATE STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS
For automatic admission to the MS, students must complete the following graduate courses:
- BSTAT 5325 ADVANCED METHODS FOR ANALYTICS
- INSY 5336 PYTHON PROGRAMMING FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS or INSY 5337 DATA ENGINEERING FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
- INSY 5339 INTRODUCTION TO AI FOR BUSINESS
An undergraduate student who successfully completes the fast track graduate coursework with grades of B or better will graduate with the undergraduate degree and will be automatically admitted to graduate study. The student will not be required to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), will not have to complete the normal Graduate School application for admission, and will not have to pay the related application fee.
Curriculum
| Baccalaureate Program | ||
| Complete non-elective requirements for BBA/BS including the following used to determine eligibility for the fast track: | 96 | |
| MICROECONOMICS | ||
or ECON 3312 | MACROECONOMICS | |
| BUSINESS FINANCE | ||
| MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR | ||
| INTERMEDIATE STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS | ||
| Complete elective requirements for BBA/BS including up to three of the following, which also count toward the MS: | 24 | |
| ADVANCED METHODS FOR ANALYTICS | ||
| PYTHON PROGRAMMING FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS | ||
| DATA ENGINEERING FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO AI FOR BUSINESS | ||
| MS Foundations | ||
| INSY 5376 | ADVANCED AI FOR BUSINESS | 3 |
| INSY 5379 | AI FOR BUSINESS CAPSTONE | 3 |
| Select all of the following not completed in BBA/BS: | 3 | |
| ADVANCED METHODS FOR ANALYTICS | ||
| PYTHON PROGRAMMING FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS | ||
| DATA ENGINEERING FOR BUSINESS APPLICATIONS | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO AI FOR BUSINESS | ||
| MS Electives | ||
| Select five from the following list of any 5000-level course approved by the Graduate Advisor. | 15 | |
| BUILDING RESPONSIBLE AND ETHICAL AI APPLICATIONS | ||
| INSY 5345 | CLOUD COMPUTING - THEORY AND PRACTICE | 3 |
| WEB AND SOCIAL ANALYTICS | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS IN AI FOR BUSINESS | ||
| GRAPH MACHINE LEARNING FOR BUSINESS | ||
| MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS DECISION-MAKING | ||
| BUSINESS & ECONOMIC FORECASTING | ||
| EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT | ||
| MARKETING ANALYTICS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT | ||
| Total Hours | 147 | |