Build a career in the growing and important field of business analytics. As firms have access to increasingly large amounts of data about their customers, costs, and suppliers, highly trained analysts who examine this information have become essential for improving operations, increasing the yield on marketing programs, and optimizing pricing and financing. UCR’s graduate degree in business analytics will extend your background in business or a quantitative discipline to bring your business acumen and statistical computing skills to a level that allows you to make the most of this vast business data.
The UCR graduate program in Business Analytics is a rigorous STEM program jointly offered by the School of Business and the Department of Statistics in the College of Agricultural and Natural Sciences. The curriculum focuses on:
Statistical computing to describe marketing, logistics and financing patterns
Testing models for improved operating efficiency, lowering costs and targeting the needs of customers
Forecasting revenues and consumer demand
Identifying trends in financial markets and using financial data to hedge operations
All students in the program take highly quantitative courses in data analysis and statistical computing, as well as a two-quarter, experiential learning capstone class that applies your understanding of business analytics to a project.
Gain your degree in nine months of intensive study or follow a flexible schedule that combines your studies with industry work experience.
Quick Facts
Duration:
9 Months, 4 Quarters, or Part-time
Starting in:
September
Location:
Riverside, CA, United States
Anderson, recruited out of UCR by the Big 6 accounting firms, says he initially wondered how his skills would compare with those of his new colleagues from top 20 business schools. “Without question my skills were as strong if not stronger than those of the others,” he says. “Not only the leadership and business skills we had learned, but also that quality of being gritty, hungry – and tireless from a work ethic standpoint – that you so often see in UCR students.”
Darin Anderson // UC Riverside alumnus
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