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• The Master of Science in Business Analytics degree program provides students with the practical and theoretical knowledge needed to pursue careers involving a wide variety of data science, data engineering and data analytics roles within a number of business domains.

• The master’s program offers three degree options for students:

  • Flex: The flex program allows students the flexibility to complete the program at their own pace. It also allows students the flexibility to choose courses and gain knowledge to pursue opportunities in several specializations in business analytics.
  • Cohort: Students in the cohort program are focused on one of two tracks – Accounting Analytics or Data Science. These tracks are offered in an on-campus format, ideal for working adults as well as full-time students.
  • Online: This format focuses on data science and is ideal for working adults, for those looking for a career pivot into the expanding business analytics job market, or for those whose personal situations make traveling to UT Dallas challenging.
• In addition to descriptive, prescriptive and predictive analytics, the program teaches such tools as SAS, R, Python, Hadoop, Stata and Tableau.
• It thus ensures that students master essential skills in business analytics to meet the growing needs of 21^st-century businesses.

Benefits

The Business Analytics master’s program ensures that students gain a broad understanding of their discipline, apply their knowledge and analytical skills to create effective and novel solutions to practical problems and communicate and work effectively in collaborative environments.

Other benefits include:

• World-Class Faculty: The program is led by faculty of the Naveen Jindal School of Management who are widely cited experts in their respective fields, many of whom also have professional industry experience.
• Comprehensive Curriculum: Courses in the Business Analytics program will introduce students to new ideas, technologies and competencies while also teaching them the knowledge they’ll need to thrive in competitive, ever-changing industries.
• Program Flexibility: The program offers a variety of tracks and numerous electives. Students have the choice to complete their degrees in the flex, cohort or online options.
• Double Degree Pathways: The double degree option allows students to share coursework between two degrees and take advantage of potential time and tuition benefits.
• Facilities: The School of Management building and Jindal School Addition provide students with more than 300,000 square feet of classroom, computer labs and study areas including specialized labs for financial trading, business communications, accounting and sales.
• Location: Situated in the greater Dallas region—recently rated by Forbes magazine as the #1 “Best City for Jobs”—UT Dallas provides students with easy access to employers and internship opportunities, not to mention a large and supportive alumni population.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Business Analytics master’s program have gone on to pursue professional careers in a wide variety of fields. Recent graduates have found jobs such as:

• Data Scientist
• Data Engineer
• Data Analyst
• Business Intelligence Analyst, Engineer or Consultant
• Risk Analyst
• Fraud Analyst
• Pricing Analyst
• Strategic Business Analyst
• Market Analyst