Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Business Analytics
About This Program
The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Business Analytics is designed to enable students to acquire critical data science and analytics skills and apply these to solve traditional and new problems in their respective domains without having to enroll in a full Masters degree program.
Competencies
- Upon completion, students will be proficient in Python for data analysis.
- Upon completion, students will be able to apply statistical analysis and inference techniques to draw insights from structured and unstructured data.
- Upon completion, students will be able to apply data-mining techniques to solve business problems.
- Upon completion, students will be able to apply analytics techniques to draw insights from social media data.
- Upon completion, students will be familiar with contemporary approaches to building responsible AI applications.
Admissions Criteria
Applicants qualify for admission into the Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics program if they meet the following admission criteria:
• An earned bachelor's degree from an accredited university, or equivalent, with a minimum GPA of 3.00 in the last 60 hours of undergraduate course work,
• 2 or more years of work experience in a related field, and
• Adequate quantitative skill demonstrated through college-level course work and/or work experience.
Curriculum
| Foundations | ||
| BSTAT 5325 | ADVANCED METHODS FOR ANALYTICS | 3 |
| INSY 5336 | PYTHON PROGRAMMING | 3 |
| INSY 5339 | PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS DATA MINING | 3 |
| INSY 5377 | WEB AND SOCIAL ANALYTICS | 3 |
| or INSY 5344 | BUILDING RESPONSIBLE AND ETHICAL AI APPLICATIONS | |
| Select one from the following: | 3 | |
| INSY 5337 | DATA WAREHOUSING AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE | |
| INSY 5378 | DATA SCIENCE: A PROGRAMMING APPROACH | |
| ECON 5337 | BUSINESS & ECONOMIC FORECASTING | |
| FINA 5376 | FINANCIAL DATA ANALYTICS | |
| MANA 5329 | HR METRICS AND ANALYTICS | |
| MARK 5337 | MARKETING ANALYTICS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT | |
Alternate elective with approval of graduate advisor | ||
| Total Hours | 15 | |
Program Completion
Students must complete 15 graduate credit hours comprised of four required courses and one elective course, and maintain a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. All courses must be completed at UTA.
Course credit earned through the certificate can be used to meet course requirements for the MS Business Analytics (MSBA) if the student is accepted into the MSBA program.