Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics

Carefully designed to keep you ahead of the trends, La Trobe's Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics will help you develop valuable new skills and allow you to develop advanced knowledge in business, programming, data engineering and artificial intelligence.

Grow your career in this fast-moving industry and understand how to develop data-based solutions for real-life business problems. In this practical course, you'll learn the latest tools from industry experts, including industry-standard programs like SAS, PowerBI, IBM Cognos, Excel, SQL and R.

Get inside businesses and understand what they really need. Learn how to solve their problems with data-based solutions. You'll develop the highly sought-after skills required to bridge the gap between analytics and non-analytics professionals, and craft innovative solutions for a wide range of businesses and organisations.

Learn from world-class academics and be immersed in research at La Trobe's Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition (CDAC). Our CDAC staff teach in the Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics and work with international research groups to develop industry-leading research into artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.

Through extensive guest lectures, you'll also connect with business leaders at companies such as SAS, IBM, Microsoft, PwC and Coles, and gain their insights.

Designed to meet the needs of working professionals, you can choose to study on campus or online, or a blend of both. Face-to-face classes are delivered at our Collins Street campus, in the heart of Melbourne's CBD, and your core subjects will be offered as evening classes.

You'll learn:

• Business analytics
  • Understand the unique needs of businesses and learn how to improve their processes.
• Advanced digital skills
  • Learn how to harness and leverage the power of new digital technologies.
• Statistics and data wrangling
  • Process complex data and use it for the advantage of businesses and organisations.
• Advanced analytical tools
  • Develop high-level skills to manage big data using a range of analytics tools.
• Professional communication
  • Learn how to connect and communicate with a wide range of professional audiences.

The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 8 - Graduate Diploma.

Successful completion of an Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent).

Admission may be granted to applicants without an undergraduate degree but with five or more years of relevant work experience. In making an offer to an applicant, the University will give consideration to a range of factors, including academic record, English proficiency and/or employment experience.

6.5 IELTS (Academic) with no individual band less than 6.0.

The need for analytics professionals is at an all-time high. Organisations are seeking to understand the massive amounts of data now at their disposal. After graduation, you could work across a wide range of sectors in roles such as:

• Business analyst
  • Understand how businesses run and use data to solve problems and improve processes.
• Market research analyst
  • Interpret market research and find data-driven solutions for businesses.
• Business consultant
  • Develop business plans and help organisations to improve their operations.
• Innovation consultant
  • Create new processes and encourage new ideas to be heard and embraced.