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Majors & Degrees

Business Analytics (AS)

Put data to use with an associate degree in business analytics

Credits

60

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Tuition

$8,956.50

estimated per semester

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In a world driven by data, organizations are increasingly relying on data analytics to inform strategic decisions and gain a competitive edge. Our Associate Degree in Business Analytics prepares you to gather, analyze, and present data that drives key business decisions. With a strong foundation in big data technologies and analytical software, you'll learn to leverage data to improve business processes, streamline operations, and solve complex problems.

Next Steps

College of Business and Information Systems

Career pathways

Graduates of the Associate Degree in Business Analytics are well-equipped to pursue a variety of exciting careers in data analytics. Our curriculum is designed to equip you with the necessary skills to work with large datasets and use data to solve business problems.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Business Analytics associate degree, students will be able to:

  • Use essential analytics tools to visualize, analyze, clean, and work with data to support decision-making functions and evaluate results
  • Draw accurate conclusions from data analyses of real-world problems with a business-focused mindset.
  • Use supervised and unsupervised learning techniques on data to achieve tasks such as classification, regression, clustering, associate ne dimensionality reduction
  • Develop the ability to effectively extract insight from data and communicate the insights with stakeholders.

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