Business Analytics (B.S.)
Data and analytics are driving business success. Our bachelor’s degree in business analytics delivers expertise and skills that put you in the driver’s seat, now and into the future.
Launch Your Career in a Dynamic, Growing Field with Illinois Tech’s B.S. in Business Analytics
Business analytics professionals draw insights from data that are vital for decision-making, efficiency, and profitability in all types of businesses and industries. In short, they are among the “go-to” people guiding where business is going next. You can be one of them. In the B.S. in Business Analytics program, you’ll develop cutting-edge analytics skills, a broad background of practical business knowledge, and an innovative, tech-focused mindset. It’s an unbeatable combination that employers value and that expands your career options.
Program Overview
Our Bachelor of Science in Business Analytics prepares you to make an impact right from the start of your career. You’ll build your mastery of key quantitative and analytical skills—such as modeling, optimization, statistics, and data visualization—that enable you to analyze huge data sets, tackle complex business challenges, and inform strategic decision-making at every level of a company or organization. The program’s core courses in business and management will hone your business acumen and skills in organization and communication, setting you up for potential career advancement into management roles.
Career Opportunities
What can you do with a business analytics degree? Read our blog post to learn more about exciting business analytics careers, including job roles such as:
- Business intelligence analyst
- Management analyst
- Operations research analyst
Hands-on and high impact! Here’s a sampling of the most interesting courses in the B.S. in Business Analytics program:
BUS 321 Analytics for Optimization
More and more, managerial decisions in all aspects of business operations are based on analysis using quantitative models from the discipline of management science. This course introduces management science tools, techniques, and concepts that support business decision-making, so you can experience firsthand how to use optimization models and spreadsheets to deal with complex managerial decision problems.
BUS 484 Data Analytics and Visualization>br> Through this course, you will learn to understand, explore, and communicate with data, using design principles and leading tools such as Tableau and Excel. Topics include data cleaning, prepping and analysis, dashboard creation, interactive visualization techniques, and the art of crafting data-driven narratives. You will gain hands-on experience visualizing and analyzing real-world data and will be prepared to make meaningful contributions to decision-making in the workplace.
BUS 480 Strategic Management and Design Thinking
Learn to combine strategic management and design thinking to lead high-performing organizations and design products. In a series of hands-on exercises and projects, you will integrate accounting, economics, finance, marketing, organizational behavior, statistics, strategy, and related disciplines into strategic management and product design. At the end of the semester, you will take the role of general manager and decide how to allocate resources, meet challenges, and make strategic organizational and product decisions.
Degree Requirements
Our Bachelor of Science in Business Analytics requires a minimum of 120 credit hours as detailed below. All courses listed are three credit hours each, unless otherwise noted.
Core Business Requirements (48 credit hours)
BUS 100—Introduction to Business and Economics
BUS 102—Introduction to Business Analytics
ECON 151—Microeconomics
ECON 152—Macroeconomics
BUS 211—Financial Accounting
BUS 212—Managerial Accounting
BUS 221—Business Statistics
BUS 301—Organizational Behavior
BUS 305—Operation and Supply Chain Analytics
BUS 311—Strategic Cost Management
BUS 321—Analytics for Optimization
BUS 341—Business Law
BUS 351—Financial Decision Making and Capital Budgeting
BUS 371—Marketing Fundamentals
ECON/BUS 382—Business Economics
BUS 480—Strategic Management and Design Thinking
Business Analytics Requirements (15 credit hours)
ECON 251—Introduction to Econometrics
BUS 473—Marketing Analytics
BUS 475—Sales Management and Analytics
BUS 484—Data Analytics and Visualization
Business Analytics Elective—Choose a business, applied math, statistics, or other course related to business analytics.
Illinois Tech Common Core and IPRO Requirements (43 credit hours)
Free Electives (14 credit hours)
Admission to all undergraduate programs at Illinois Tech is evaluated via a holistic approach that takes various factors under consideration, including your high school performance and essays. Your choice of major will impact this process as well, because each major has its own criteria for admission.
To learn more about our admission selection process, recommended high school coursework, and our admitted student profile, please visit our admission website.
Tuition and Fees
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