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The B.S. degree in business analytics prepares students for careers that use data to support and inform business decision-making and management. Students learn skills in a natural progression including assembling and managing data, displaying data, uncovering patterns in data, developing predictive models, and using these models to make better decisions across all business domains. Business analytics skills are in demand across a wide range of industries including healthcare, sports, marketing, finance, consulting, supply-chain operations, and information technology. Students are encouraged to develop expertise in a functional business discipline such as supply-chain management, health care management, marketing or finance using elective coursework.
The sport management concentration teaches students to utilize their quantitative analytical skills to make informed and accurate decisions in the sport management sphere.
Students earning a B.S. degree in business analytics are required to complete 121 credits, including the university core curriculum (41 credits) and the business program core (30 credits). Further clarification and additional requirements are outlined below.
Program Outcomes:
1.1 Students will demonstrate knowledge of fundamental business concepts in functional areas.
1.2 Students will integrate knowledge from business functional areas and formulate solutions (in written form) that consider both the internal and the external environments of an organization.
2.1 Students will apply appropriate analytic methods to find solutions for business problems.
2.2 Students will employ evidence / information to derive a solution for business problems from possible alternatives.
3.1 Students will explain how different types of diversity adds value in a business environment.
3.2 Students will apply ethical principles in business decision-making within a global marketplace impacting different sets of stakeholders.
4.1 Students will prepare and deliver an effective oral presentation on a business topic.
4.2 Students will demonstrate effective team skills.
5.1 Design appropriate machine learning algorithms to analyze a real-world application.
5.2 Implement a data-mining algorithm to solve a real-world application.
6.1 Apply appropriate analytic methods to find solutions for sport business problems.
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