Outcomes for B.S. in Business Analytics

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As members of the Stillman community, students with a Business Analytics major will have a solid foundation in general business skills and competencies from the business required core (45 credits). In addition, students completing the major will be able to:

Develop deep business knowledge and skills by being able to:

1. describe the common business processes and some measures of effectiveness of each process
2. effectively communicate business problems, analytics approaches and analytics-based solutions orally and in writing

Demonstrate technical knowledge and skills by being able to:

1. apply relational database concepts
2. proficiently use at least two analytics environments (e.g., R and Python)
3. use current technologies for storing and processing large datasets including cloud computing resources

Demonstrate analytics knowledge and skills by being able to:

1. prepare data for analytics through wrangling techniques like cleaning, imputing, summarizing, and reshaping
2. build, evaluate and deploy predictive models and relate them to the business context
3. connect prescriptive models to the underlying business context