UCLA Anderson To Add Business Analytics Degree This Fall
Next fall, the UCLA Anderson School of Management will add a Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) degree program as a possible track for business graduate students.
Biz Degree Faceoff: MBA vs Master’s in Business Analytics
Before you head back to business school to improve your career options in big data, there’s one major question you have to answer, “Do I want an MBA or a Master’s in Business Analytics?” The differences are subtle, but they can make a big difference in your life after graduation. It all depends on what you want out of your program. Continue reading…
Fox School Announces Two New MBA Concentrations
Temple University’s Fox School of Business recently announced two new MBA concentrations. The programs will be available to candidates during the 2016-17 academic year.
Students will be given the opportunity to choose from new programming in Business Analytics or Enterprise Risk Management.
Hot MBA Jobs: Operations Research Analyst
In a recent post, we discussed Big Data and the Demand for Business Analytics Talent. We talked about how the study of complex sets of information and data science — something we call big data and business analytics — are both components of a rabidly growing industry. Correlative to the growth of big data is the spike of interest in big data jobs among contemporary MBA students. Continue reading…
Big Data and the Demand for Business Analytics Talent
Core-competency, sustainability, hyper-local, synergy — these terms are all among today’s hottest business buzzwords. Also among the most coveted words used by executives in board rooms around the globe today is “big data” and “business analytics.” You hear these terms all the time in press releases, research papers, news articles, and job descriptions, but what do they really mean and why are they important to know? Continue reading…
MIT Sloan Announces New Master of Business Analytics Degree
In a recent press release, MIT Sloan in collaboration with the MIT Operations Research Center unveiled its new Master of Business Analytics (M.B.An.) degree—a graduate program to compliment its undergraduate and doctoral offerings—slated to begin as part of the fall 2016 semester. The M.B.An. is intended to prepare students to apply “the tools of modern data science to solve problems in business and society.”
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