Applied Analytics

Unique Features

• Available 100% online, offering a flexible learning format.
• Program is stackable, allowing for students to take a course as a nondegree professional development option, take a series of courses to earn a certificate, or earn a certificate and stack up to 18 quarter hours (6 courses) into the Master of Professional Studies in Analytics.

Program Objectives

• Demonstrate the foundational knowledge and skills critical to pursue data analytics as a profession in relation to statistics and math
• Articulate and effectively defend the significance and implications of work in data analytics in terms of challenges and trends in a local, national, or global context
• Demonstrate the knowledge of advanced tools in data analytics
• Articulate and effectively defend the significance of leadership, governance, and ethics in data analytics in terms of challenges and trends in a local, national, or global context
• Apply the principles, tools, and methods of analytics to a comprehensive real-world problem or project related to data analyses for tactical and/or strategic decision making
• Integrate the major theories, tools, and approaches in data analytics to identify data-driven insights for informed business process management
• Design and deliver presentations, reports, and recommendations that effectively translate technical results/data solutions and are coherent and persuasive to different audiences

Career Outlook

Graduates will have the skills to understand and analyze data. Those who are data-literate are needed and valued across all industries, departments, and seniority levels, making a career in analytics a potentially lucrative one for people of all backgrounds. Here are some in-demand data-oriented careers:

• Data mining analyst
• Business intelligence analyst
• Business/management analyst
• Compensation/benefits analyst
• Financial analyst
• HRIS analyst
• Operations analyst