Employers need skilled individuals who can translate big data into recommendations for profitable actions. The Master of Science in Business Analytics degree program provides students with the practical and theoretical knowledge needed to pursue careers involving a wide variety of data science, data engineering and data analytics roles within a number of business domains.
Taught by top-tier faculty at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, this STEM-designated degree program consists of both core courses and a set of electives organized into various tracks: Accounting Analytics, Cybersecurity Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science, Decisions and Operations Analytics, Financial Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Social Media Analytics and Enterprise Systems Analytics.
The master's program offers three degree options for students:
- Flex: The flex program allows students the flexibility to complete the program at their own pace. It also allows students the flexibility to choose courses and gain knowledge to pursue opportunities in several specializations in business analytics.
- Cohort: Students in the cohort program are focused on one of two tracks - Accounting Analytics or Data Science. These tracks are offered in an on-campus format, ideal for working adults as well as full-time students.
- Online: This format focuses on data science and is ideal for working adults, for those looking for a career pivot into the expanding business analytics job market, or for those whose personal situations make traveling to UT Dallas challenging.
In addition to descriptive, prescriptive and predictive analytics, the program teaches such tools as SAS, R, Python, Hadoop, Stata and Tableau. It thus ensures that students master essential skills in business analytics to meet the growing needs of 21st-century businesses.