{"id":89219,"date":"2022-06-15T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=89219"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:53:54","slug":"graduate-certificate-in-business-analytics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/questrom\/programs\/graduate-certificate-in-business-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics will offer students the opportunity to take a deep-dive into business analytics at the same time that they earn their MBA degree.<\/p>\n<h3>Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students who complete the Certificate in Business Analytics will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand how analysis fits into the broader agenda of management.<\/li>\n<li>Assess the value of data-driven decisionmaking as well as its limitations.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate the cost of data and analysis, and when the benefits of improved business decisions make this cost worth bearing.<\/li>\n<li>Distinguish and work with different kinds of data in a business setting.<\/li>\n<li>Construct and demonstrate analysis using programming-based tooling within a business context.<\/li>\n<li>Classify different kinds of analysis\/tools and be able to evaluate which is appropriate for different business problems (e.g., evaluate the benefits of programming-based tooling relative to point-n-click or Excel-based approaches within a business context).<\/li>\n<li>Design and create analysis based on advanced topics (e.g., Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data, SQL databases) and apply these tools to realistic business problems.<\/li>\n<li>Create their own analysis and demonstrate the application of the above content to practical scenarios.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Requirements<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To earn the Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics, students must complete a total of 15 units as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Required Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QST IS 737 Decision Making with Data (3 units)<\/li>\n<li>Choose one of the following:\n<ul>\n<li>QST IS 834 Business Analytics in Practice (3 units)<br \/>\n<strong>or<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>QST QM 877 Intro to Python Bootcamp (1.5 units) <strong>and<\/strong> QST QM 878 Deep Learning with Python Bootcamp (1.5 units)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Elective Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choose three courses from the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QST IS 841 Data Mining (3 units)<\/li>\n<li>QST IS 843 Big Data (3 units)<\/li>\n<li>QST IS 860 Business Analytics Consulting (3 units)<\/li>\n<li>QST IS 889 Data Management (3 units)<\/li>\n<li>QST MK 842<span> <\/span>Machine Learning (3 units)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Academic Standards<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the certificate to be conferred, a student must achieve a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 2.70 (on a 4.0 scale). Students are not permitted to take additional units beyond the certificate program in order to improve grades (CGPA) or restart enrollment, nor can they withdraw and re-enroll.<\/p>\n<h3>Certificate Completion<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics, students must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Successfully complete all required courses, for a total of 15 units.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.70.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have no \u201cI\u201d grades or no \u201cMG\u201d grades in courses counting toward the certificate.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only up to 9 units of the certificate program may also be applied toward the MBA degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Graduate Certificate in Business Analytics will offer students the opportunity to take a deep-dive into business analytics at the same time that they earn their MBA degree. 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