Business Analytics

Business Analytics is on the Management and Entrepreneurship track. Students interested in Business Analytics might also enjoy the following majors listed below and obtain similar characteristics and skills.

   

Technical and Computational Skills​

    

Translation of Complex Data​

   

Creative Problem Solving

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Research and Data Analysis​

   

Statistically Intensive Curriculum

   

Integration of Marketing Topics

   

Focus of Management Practices

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  • Statistics and Data Science provides students with skills in both traditional statistical methods and cutting edge data analysis techniques. The program requires an in-­depth knowledge of some area of science, engineering, social science or liberal arts that uses statistics to solve important problems.

  • The Business Minor introduces students to the fundamentals of business through classes in marketing, management, finance and accounting. In addition to these topics, students choose one of the five “track” options in which they’d like to further explore. Options include Innovation, Analytics, Entrepreneurship, Global Business or Real Estate.

Characteristics it possesses:

   Technical and Computational Skills
   Translation of Complex Data
   Creative Problem Solving
​    Research and Data Analysis
  Statistically Intensive Curriculum
   Integration of Marketing Topics
   Focus of Management Practices

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  • Information Science majors learn to collect, analyze and interpret many different information sources to understand our world. They study how we interact with all things digital, including software, devices and algorithms, and are able to create social and technological solutions that are truly engaging for those who use them, apply those solutions to real problems, and evaluate their effectiveness.

  • The Economics minor examines how governments, businesses, households and individuals choose to allocate their various needs and wants, including the production, distribution and consumption of materials goods and services and the positive and negative consequences of changes in economic activities and government policies.

Characteristics it possesses:

   Technical and Computational Skills
   Translation of Complex Data
   Creative Problem Solving
​    Research and Data Analysis
   Integration of Marketing Topics

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  • Economics is a highly quantitative major with emphasis in real-world application and analysis. Microeconomics studies daily decisions of consumers and companies whereas macroeconomics studies how those decisions impact the size and growth of the economy overall. Topics are multi-disciplinary spanning from trade and finance to law and economics to natural resource economics. Students in the quantitative emphasis have an interest in applied mathematics and quantitative research.

  • The leadership studies minor prepares tomorrow's leaders to ethically lead through a combination of academic coursework, self-reflection and team projects.

Characteristics it possesses:

   Technical and Computational Skills
   Creative Problem Solving
​    Research and Data Analysis
  Statistically Intensive Curriculum
   Integration of Marketing Topics
   Focus of Management Practices

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  • The Geography major studies the interactions between people and their environments in order to understand how people interact with, are shaped by, and in turn help shape, our world. Students learn about environmental change, global development, social and economic issues, and resource use in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. Students are also required to take a methods course that will cover topics in spatial and earth analysis or data science.

  • The certificate in GIS and Computational Science teaches students to identify, analyze and understand spatial patterns, with an emphasis on computation and analytical problem solving.

Characteristics it possesses:

   Technical and Computational Skills
   Translation of Complex Data
   Creative Problem Solving
​    Research and Data Analysis
  Statistically Intensive Curriculum

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  • The Linguistics major provides students with insight into the fundamental design features of language—its sound patterns, its word- and sentence-formation devices, its semantic structure—and to create awareness of language varieties: the diversity of human languages, the role of language as an index of social identity and the ontogenetic and historical development of language.

  • The Data Science Minor provides an introduction to the core concepts and skills of data science in computing, statistics and information science. Students learn how to use scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data.

Characteristics it possesses:

   Technical and computational skills
   Translation of Complex Data
   Creative Problem Solving
​    Research and Data Analysis
  Statistically Intensive Curriculum
   Integration of Marketing Topics