Application requirements:  A student must fill out the School of Business graduate application and have at least a completed bachelor’s degree to qualify for the program. Depending on previous coursework the student may need to take the two pre-requisite courses listed below. 

To earn the certificate a student must earn a C or better in each of the courses earn a cumulative GPA of 2.5 in the certificate program. 

Prerequisites:

• BUS-K 321 Management of Information Technology (3 cr.)
• ECON-E 270 Business Statistics (3 cr.) 

Required Courses:

• BUKO-K 542: Business Analytics
  • Introduction to data driven decision making (10%)
  • Types of data and data issues (10%)
  • Visualizations and dashboards (40%)
  • Intro to predictive analytics (20%)
  • Intro to optimization and simulation (20%)
• BUKO-K ###: Topics in Advanced Analytics
  • Organizing, storing, and managing data (30%)
  • Advanced predictive analytics topics (classification, machine learning, etc - 50%)
  • Advanced optimization and simulation topics (20%)

Choose two of the following courses:

At first these would be undergraduate courses that we would strategically cross-list to allow students some choices.  Professors would have to show significant analytics or MIS coverage in the courses to have them approved for the certificate. A sub-committee from CMAL will make determinations regarding whether course content is sufficient to be included in the certificate.

Examples could be:

• Accounting Information Systems
• Financial Modeling
• Customer Relationship Management
• Human Resources Information Systems
• Possibly a class from Informatics or Computer Science