Equip yourself with the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to become a business-ready analytics professional.
Are you ready to become a business-ready analytics professional?
Our MSc Business Analytics program equips you with the knowledge, skills, and hands-on experience you need. This course focuses on the practical application of analytical techniques in business settings, making it ideal for those who want to excel in business intelligence, business insight, business analysis, management consultancy, or simply wish to make better use of data and make more accurate decisions in their current field.
Imagine gaining hands-on experience and the practical skills needed to stand out in the competitive business world. Our curriculum aligns with the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) qualification, potentially shortening your path to CAP certification.
Take the next step in your career and become an expert in transforming data into actionable insights.
The entry requirement for this course is a Bachelor (Honours) Degree at 2:2 or above in a degree with significant quantitative component. Suitable fields include: Statistics, Psychology, Maths, Physical and Biological Sciences, Business Management, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science.
We may also consider lesser qualifications if you have sufficient professional work experience within the industry.
This course has academic entry requirements which are assessed alongside relevant work experience. Full details of any relevant work experience, including references should be submitted with your application and may be considered for entry where the minimum academic entry requirements are below those required.
Usually, unrelated work experience is not considered sufficient for entry without meeting the minimum academic entry requirements. Please contact us with your specific circumstances by submitting an enquiry form and we will be happy to discuss your options.
If you want to get more information on the admission process, please get in touch with the postgraduate admissions team by submitting an enquiry form.
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As the influence of data analysis methodology grows, and the volume of data collected increases rapidly, the number and variety of roles in data science are also growing significantly. The purpose of our MSc Business Analytics is to develop industry-ready analytics professionals who have knowledge and skills in the techniques that are integral to developing and implementing the analytics function of organisations, making graduates attractive to employers. (In the Scottish Employer Skills Survey (Scottish Government, 2021) complex analytical skills accounted for 44% of skill-shortage vacancies.)
Graduates will have gained useful and practical business and descriptive, prescriptive and predictive analytics skills and knowledge. This will enable them to significantly contribute to the performance of any organisation and to deliver important information for key business decisions and business development within the global business environment.
Additionally, the program will develop software and modelling skills for implementing analytics projects, including the use of tools that are widely used in the analytics industry such as Python, R, Excel-based modelling, and Simul8.
Modules that you will study* as part of this course:
* These are indicative only and reflect the course structure in the current academic year. Some changes may occur between now and the time that you study.
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