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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.
Two electives from:
Highly recommended electives:
| BUSINESS E714 | Business and Economic Forecasting |
| BUSINESS F741 | Introduction to FinTech |
| BUSINESS F743 | Big Data in Finance |
| BUSINESS K735 | Managing the Implementation of Enterprise Systems |
| BUSINESS K740 | Business Applications of Data Analytics/AI | NEW COURSE |
| EHEALTH 746 | Healthcare Analytics |
| BUSINESS M731 | Marketing Research |
| BUSINESS M733 | Marketing Analytics |
| BUSINESS M734 | Strategic Marketing Analysis |
| BUSINESS O715 | Simulation for Business Analytics |
| BUSINESS O712 | Data Analytics Using Python | NEW COURSE |
Other Electives:
| BUSINESS F715 | Portfolio Theory and Management |
| BUSINESS F735 | Financial Modelling |
| BUSINESS F735 | Financial Modelling |
| BUSINESS O721 | Inventory Management and Production Planning |
| BUSINESS O734 | Supply Chain Management |
| BUSINESS O735 | Strategic Procurement |
| BUSINESS D719 | Independent Research Project in Business Analytics | NEW COURSE |
