Business Analytics
Description
Business Analytics is a cross-discipline specialization that incorporates descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics courses as well as application courses. In addition to the required Year 1 foundational functional areas of business courses, the specialization offers foundational courses in predictive and prescriptive courses in Year 2. Most of the courses will make use of relevant analytics software to equip the students with the necessary analytics platforms.
Many industry leaders have touted data analytics as the next frontier for innovation and productivity. The employment growth in data analytics is predicted to be the largest among all occupations in Canada. This specialization provides students with a wide variety of career options in the area of business analytics in finance, marketing and operations.
The Business Analytics specialization serves as a gateway to valuable professional designations such as INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) designation as well as the SAP Business Integration Certification program.
Required Courses
Plus two electives from these courses:
Highly Recommended Electives
| E714 | Business and Economic Forecasting |
| F741 | Introduction to FinTech |
| F743 | Big Data in Finance |
| K735 | Managing the Implementation of Enterprise Systems |
| K740 | Business Applications of Data Analytics/AI |
| EHEALTH 746 | Healthcare Analytics |
| M731 | Marketing Research |
| M733 | Marketing Analytics |
| M734 | Strategic Marketing Analysis |
| O715 | Simulation for Business Analytics |
| O712 | Data Analytics Using Python |
Other Electives
| F715 | Portfolio Theory and Management |
| F735 | Financial Modelling |
| O721 | Inventory Management and Production Planning |
| O734 | Supply Chain Management |
| O735 | Strategic Procurement |
| D719 | Independent Research Project in Business Analytics |