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  • DeadlineStudy Details: MSc 1 year full-time

Course Description

Develop your understanding of business analytics. You’ll graduate with the skills you need to start a career specialising in data and decision analysis.

This course is for graduates who want to pursue a career in business analytics.

How can companies use ‘big data’ to gain business insight? This course will teach you how to convert data into knowledge. Get hands-on practical experience using the latest business intelligence software and interpreting real data.

This course includes guest lectures from industry experts, and a unit co-delivered by a specialist from IBM.

In partnership with IBM, Qlik, WinPure and the Women in OR & Analytics Network.

Key benefits

  • An MSc in Business Analytics gives you a range of career opportunities across different sectors
  • Get practical experience in computer programming and the latest business analytics software
  • Our small, carefully-selected class sizes allows for plenty of individual interaction with academics, career advisors and industry experts
  • Graduate equipped with the skills global employers want. Big data's importance to businesses is growing, and our graduates are in high demand
  • A dissertation based on real data might allow you to work with a partner company. Watch Business Analytics students share their experience of doing an industrial dissertation.
  • Meetings with graduates, business challenges and careers fairs will give you valuable experience of the global job market
  • Get the knowledge and skills to help prepare you to secure your dream job

Highly-ranked

We're ranked top 100 in the world and UK top 10 for our MSc in Business Analytics in the QS Business Masters rankings 2024.

Entry Requirements

2:1 or above (or its international equivalent). Your degree can be in any discipline but you must have studied a subject with high quantitative content.

You will be better suited to this course if you have studied business or management, or studied a subject with high quantitative content, such as:

  • mathematics/statistics
  • computer science
  • engineering
  • physics
  • a quantitative social science

If you are a UK student and completed your undergraduate degree abroad, your qualification must be equivalent to a 2:1 or above.

Programming experience

Previous experience of computer programming is an advantage. You should include information about your quantitative and programming experience in your personal statement.

Work experience

In exceptional cases, relevant work experience may be a substitute for the degree requirement. You should have no more than three years’ relevant work experience.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

We give you the edge

We combine the latest research with many opportunities to apply it. This will help you stand out from the crowd. You'll develop key professional skills and work with our partner organisations on optional projects from day one.

Our graduates have a great employment record. Most go on to careers in a range of areas, start their own business or begin a PhD. 

Graduate career data

81% of our 2022 and 2023 graduates had accepted a job offer within three months of completing their degree.

Module Details

Semester 1

Compulsory units

  • Business statistics and forecasting
  • Databases and business intelligence
  • Optimisation and spreadsheet modelling

Semester 2

Compulsory units

  • Analytics in practice
  • Data mining and machine learning
  • Heuristics and simulation

Optional units

  • Advanced business forecasting
  • Advanced data visualisation
  • Independent study
  • Operations strategy
  • Project management

Summer

  • Dissertation in business analytics

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