Business analytics major will enable the students to analyse data for business decision making. It involves using information technology, statistical analysis, quantitative methods, and computer-based models to gain improved insight about business operations and aid better data-based business decision making.
Business analytics is an integral part of modern management. It helps solve complex business problems using data. Business analytics will provide the students with a range of specific frameworks, tools, and concepts that they will be able to apply across a wide range of real time business functions and situations. It will enable the students to learn techniques and tools to identify, understand and apply state-of-the art methods using hands-on approach to drive value for businesses, companies and society. Business analytics skills are deployed. In all functions of any firm.
On completion of this major, the student will be able to:
Business analytics graduates find opportunities in both manufacturing and services organizations. They build data models and perform analysis for various functions of a firm like marketing, finance, human resource, operations & supply chain management.
| Offered by | Amrut Mody School of Management |
| Programme | Bachelor of Science in Management (Honours) |
| Degree | Bachelor of Science in Management (Honours) |
| Minimum Programme Credits | 125* |
| Minimum Major Credits | 65* |
| Business Analytics is also offered as a MINOR | |
All students entering the undergraduate programme complete our common core, The Foundation Programme, in the first year. The Foundation Programme is designed around four Studios, each of three credits. They are:
Democracy and Justice
Environment and Climate Change
Neighbourhoods
Water
The studios deliver interdisciplinary learning around six domains:
Data Science, Communication, Behaviour, Constitution & Civilisation, Materials, and Biology & Life.
| Humanities and Languages GER |
| Social Sciences GER |
| Biological and Life Sciences GER |
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences GER |
| Performance and Visual Arts GER |
| GER Elective 1: Communication I |
| GER Elective 2: Communication II |
| GER Elective 3: Identity and Behaviour |
| GER Elective 4: Any course at the university outside the major |
| GER Elective 5: Any course at the university outside the major |
| Major Requirements | Credits |
|---|---|
| School Core | 18 |
| Introductory Calculus | |
| Decision Sciences | |
| Introduction to Macroeconomics | |
| Introduction to Statistics | |
| Organisational Process | |
| Probability | |
| Business Analytics | |
| Programme Core | 23 |
| Marketing Management | |
| Human Capital Management | |
| Financial Management | |
| Financial Accounting | |
| Operations Management | |
| Competitive Strategy | |
| Internship | Required |
| Undergraduate Thesis or Capstone Project | 6 |
| Major Core | 9 |
| Predictive Analytics for Business | |
| Decision Science | |
| Database Management | |
| Major Electives | 15 |
| Analytics Lab | |
| Big Data Analytics | |
| Services Operations Management | |
| Project Management | |
| Dark Side of Organisation | |
| People analytics | |
| Essentials of Marketing Research | |
| Sales and Distribution Management | |
| Mathematics for Management | |
| Econometrics | |
| Supply Chain analytics | |
| Stochastic Processes | |
| Advanced Business Analytics | |
| Simulation Modelling | |
| Financial Modelling | |
| Applied Multivariate Analysis | |
| Marketing Analytics | |
| Marketing Research |
Free Electives provide flexibility to students to customise their education at the University.
All students will complete 30 hours of engagement with society to develop a sense of engagement, concern, build problem solving skills, and understand the role of an engaged member of a society. This will be done through a mandatory course, Engagement with Society, that would be a graduation requirement. This course can be taken anytime during the stay at the University but it is advised that the student engage with the courses during the first two years at the University. The 30 hours of volunteer work may be completed during one semester or during the Winter or Summer Break.