Business Analytics
Major: Business Analytics
Degree Awarded: Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBSAN)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Minimum Required Credits: 45.0
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 52.1302
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 15-2041; 19-3022; 25-1011; 25-1022
About the Program
The MS in Business Analytics program is designed for students who have an interest in quantitative methods, data analysis, and using computer programs to solve business problems.
Students learn how to access and analyze data for the purpose of improved business decision-making. This program prepares students to make good business decisions with fact-based insights and an understanding of business performance from a systems view using statistical and quantitative analysis of data as well as explanatory and predictive modeling. The program includes a capstone course where students apply what they have learned in the curriculum, typically to a real-world business problem.
The program draws upon three traditional areas of business intelligence:
- Statistics, to explore and uncover relationships in data
- Operations research, to develop mathematical models for data-supported decision-making
- Management information systems, to access and create databases that support the other two areas
Additional Information
For more information about the program, students should contact the Department of Decision Sciences and MIS.
Degree Requirements
| Operations Research | ||
| OPR 601 | Managerial Decision Models and Simulation | 3.0 |
| Statistics | ||
| STAT 610 | Statistics for Business Analytics | 3.0 |
| STAT 630 | Multivariate Analysis | 3.0 |
| STAT 642 | Data Mining for Business Analytics | 3.0 |
| Management Information Systems | ||
| MIS 612 | Aligning Information Systems and Business Strategies | 3.0 |
| MIS 632 | Database Analysis and Design for Business | 3.0 |
| MIS 636 | Python Programming for Business Applications | 3.0 |
| Interdisciplinary | ||
| BSAN 615 | Data Visualization & Analytics | 3.0 |
| BSAN 710 | Business Analytics Capstone Project | 3.0 |
| Students Select One Concentration* | 9.0 | |
| Information Systems Concentration | ||
| Select three of the following: | ||
| Systems Analysis & Design | ||
| Inter-Active Decision Support Systems | ||
| Predictive Business Analytics with Relational Database Data | ||
| Advanced Business Analytics with Relational Database Data | ||
| MIS Policy and Strategy | ||
| Emerging Information Technologies in Business | ||
| Management of Health Care Info Systems | ||
| Information Systems Outsourcing Management | ||
| Business Agility and IT | ||
| Design Thinking for Digital Innovations | ||
| Managing with Enterprise Application Software using SAP - Logistics | ||
| Managing with Enterprise Application Software using SAP-Accounting & Analytics | ||
| Statistics Concentration | ||
| Select three of the following: | ||
| Econometrics | ||
| Time Series Econometrics | ||
| Applied Industrial Analysis | ||
| Customer Analytics | ||
| Marketing Experiments | ||
| Applied Regression Analysis | ||
| Quality & Six-Sigma | ||
| Experimental Design | ||
| Advanced Statistical Quality Control | ||
| Time Series Forecasting | ||
| Modeling Concentration | ||
| Select three of the following: | ||
| Mathematical Economics | ||
| Microeconomics | ||
| Business & Economic Strategy: Game Theory & Applications | ||
| Operations Research I | ||
| Operations Research II | ||
| Advanced Mathematical Program | ||
| System Simulation | ||
| Decision Models for the Public Sector | ||
| OR Models in Finance | ||
| Supply Chain Analytics | ||
| Functional Area of Business Concentration | ||
To complete a concentration in one of these fields, the student will develop a plan of study that is mutually approved by the student and the Department Head. | ||
| Select three 600-level courses from either: ACCT, FIN, MKTG, POM or ECON | ||
| Free Electives* | 6.0 | |
Select two 600-level courses within LeBow. | ||
| Experiential Learning Requirement | ||
| BUSN 615 | Graduate Internship | 3.0 |
| or MGMT 715 | Business Consulting | |
| Total Credits | 45.0 | |
- *
Courses outside LeBow can be substituted with permission from your Program Manager.
Sample Plan of Study
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| MIS 612 | 3.0 | BSAN 615 | 3.0 | MIS 632 | 3.0 | Experiential Learning Requirement | 3.0 |
| OPR 601 | 3.0 | MIS 636 | 3.0 | STAT 630 | 3.0 | ||
| STAT 610 | 3.0 | STAT 642 | 3.0 | Elective | 3.0 | ||
| 9 | 9 | 9 | 3 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | ||||
| BSAN 710 | 3.0 | Electives | 6.0 | ||||
| Electives | 6.0 | ||||||
| 9 | 6 | ||||||
| Total Credits 45 | |||||||
Note: First Year Summer is less than the 4.5-credit minimum required (considered half-time status) of graduate programs to be considered financial aid eligible. As a result, aid will not be disbursed to students this term.
Facilities
The 12-story, 177,500-square-foot home for LeBow College of Business is located at the heart of the Drexel University campus, at the intersection of Woodland Walk and Market Street, where it forms a gateway to Drexel and a backdrop to the historic statue of A. J. Drexel (Moses Ezekiel, 1904). The diagonal massing of the lower floors follows Woodland Walk and combines with the new Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (Diamond & Schmitt, 2011) to energize the University’s central quadrangle. The building’s tower will mark the LeBow College and Drexel campus from all directions while the open, glassy Market Street façade will showcase the College’s student activities to passersby.
The building’s organization unites the school’s various constituencies around a five-story-high atrium ringed by classrooms, student lounges, events spaces, and offices. The atrium is immediately accessible from main entrances at the three corners of the building. An open stair within the atrium leads to a 300-seat auditorium and 100-seat lecture hall one floor below and to a divisible multipurpose room and additional classrooms above. The building’s upper floors contain faculty offices interspersed with seminar rooms and group study rooms. The top floor houses the Dean’s suite and a boardroom and conference suite that opens to east- and west-facing terraces.
The building’s warm masonry and glass exterior reflects the emerging vocabulary of the next generation of Drexel buildings. Sophisticated solar shading devices allow maximum transparency between the inside and outside while supporting the building’s high environmental aspirations.
Key Building Features
- Five-story atrium
- Finance trading lab with Bloomberg Terminal Room
- 300-seat auditorium
- 160-seat event space
- 100-seat lecture hall
- 45-seat seminar rooms
- 44-seat computer classrooms
- 60-seat classrooms
- Executive MBA classroom
- 24-seat classrooms
- Special areas for experiential learning simulations and business consulting
- Videoconferencing capabilities
- Integrated teaching technology in all classrooms
- Recording studio to support LeBow College’s online programs
- Extensive areas for students to gather socially and for collaborative study, including student collaboration rooms, two quiet study areas, and 3,500 square feet of student social space
- EMBA Alumni Lounge for the exclusive use of EMBA alumni
- Behavioral Studies Lab
- Starbucks
- Green Globe certifiable, meeting worldwide sustainability standards
Gerri C. LeBow Hall brings together faculty, students, and staff in a state-of-the-art building on the University City campus. Please visit the LeBow College of Business webpage, the Behavioral Lab webpage, and the Finance Trading Lab webpage to learn more about Gerri C. LeBow Hall.
