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Business Analytics Certificate

Build your competitive advantage by mastering the art of decision making by analyzing the information and analytics that matter most.

Why Earn a Business Analytics Graduate Certificate?

The online Business Analytics Graduate Certificate will prepare students to strengthen the decision-making processes through data analysis. This program offers a tight integration of the science and technology underlying business analytics to solve key business problems in the areas of operations management, sales, marketing, finance, and economics. Graduates will have the ability to strengthen their competitive position, achieve operational efficiency and anticipate trends in the marketplace.

Business analysts harness the power of mathematics, amplified by information technology, to extract knowledge from data. By using data mining and statistics, analysts provide decision makers with information to make better decisions. Managers and executives solve business problems and exploit business opportunities based on knowledge, creating competitive advantages. Business analytics can be used to identify high-value or high-risk customers, analyze consumer preferences, determine credit risk, and detect fraud, among other things.

Gain personal development, better career opportunities and enhance your knowledge to prepare for your career as a business leader.

 

Degrees & Offerings

Business Analytics

Certificate
  Online

The curriculum of the Business Analytics specialization or certificate spans the full cycle of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to optimize business processes in manufacturing, customer relationship management and supply chain management. Graduates will lead organizations to achieve operational efficiency, anticipate trends in the marketplace and strengthen their competitive position.

Students need to meet prerequisite requirements to be eligible for the advanced courses in this certificate program. These courses include undergraduate coursework in statistics, calculus, and information systems. The Beacom School of Business offers these courses both as online undergraduate courses and online graduate-level foundations courses. Challenge exams are also available.

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Departments & Facilities

Explore the departments, facilities and centers that contribute to your education in economics and decision sciences.
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Economics and Decision Sciences

Analyzing and applying data is both one of the greatest opportunities and challenges modern business professionals face, and USD's Division of Economics and Decision is there to help you embrace that challenge head on.

Faculty & Staff

Get to know the faculty and staff in the Economics and Decisions Sciences Division. Our faculty are experts in their field, contributing research and scholarship in public policy, labor, micro- and macroeconomics and much more.
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Thomas Tiahrt

Assoc Prof Decision Sciences

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All Other Options
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Michael Allgrunn

Professor

Specialty

Econometrics, Labor Economics, Analytics,Economics/ Managerial Economics
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Chad Birger

Instructor

Specialty

Data Analytics
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David Carr Ph.D.

Chair-ECON & DSCI

Specialty

Economics/ Managerial Economics
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Bartlomiej Hanus

Associate Professor

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Computer or Management Information Systems
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Reed Muehler

Instructor of Managment

Specialty

Strategic Management,All Other Options
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Daniel Tracy

Professor

Specialty

Production/Operations Management
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Sebastian Wai

Assistant Professor

Specialty

Industrial Organization, Econometrics,Economics/ Managerial Economics
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Mandie Weinandt

Director of CTL

Specialty

Statistics,Economics/ Managerial Economics

Surprisingly Affordable

Whether you’ve recently completed your undergraduate degree, or you want to kick your career up a notch, graduate school is the next logical step. The good news is there is funding for both online and on-campus students to get you through your program. 

Graduate Tuition & Costs

Learn more about tuition and fees for undergraduate students and see how your out-of-pocket costs at USD compare to those at other colleges and universities. Visit the Graduate Tuition & Costs Detailed page for program specific costs and fees.

Financial Aid

Navigating options for how to pay for college can be challenging, but you are not alone. The Office of Financial Aid will work with you and your family to explore how you can make your college education even more affordable.

Graduate Assistantships

USD offers opportunities for grad students to earn a reduced tuition rate in exchange for their teaching, research and service efforts to the university.

 


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