Graduate Certificate in
Database Management and Business Intelligence

ON CAMPUS | ONLINE | BLENDED

Database systems are the information heart of modern enterprises, where they are used for processing business transactions and for understanding and managing the enterprise. Business intelligence is the analysis of data to produce insights useful for managing the enterprise and increasingly in routine business operations such as intelligent supply chain management. Students who complete the certificate in Database Systems and Business Intelligence will be prepared to design and implement both transaction processing and decision support databases and to use data mining technologies to discover the structure, trends, and relationships in the data to produce valuable business insights and effective decision support processes.

Summary

  • Four courses/16 credits
  • Requirements can be fully completed part time on campus, online or, in the blended format. Contact the Department for further details at csinfo@bu.edu.
  • A minimum passing grade for a course in the graduate program is a C (2.0) but an average grade of B (3.0) must be maintained to be in good academic standing and to be eligible for certificate completion.

Certificate Requirements

(four required courses/16 credits)

Classes are available On Campus, Online and in the Blended format unless otherwise noted.

(and one selected from the following)

A minimum passing grade for a course in the graduate program is a C (2.0) but an average grade of B (3.0) must be maintained to be in good academic standing and to earn the certificate.

Program Prerequisites

Applicants must have an earned Bachelor’s degree, in any field of study, from a regionally accredited college/university (or the international equivalent) prior to enrollment at MET. Applicants are not required to have a degree in Computer Science for entry to a program within our Computer Science department. Upon review of your application, the department will determine if the completion of prerequisite coursework will be required, based on your academic and professional background.

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Related Graduate Degree Programs

Students who are fully accepted into this graduate certificate program and complete all of the required courses with a grade of ‘B’ or better are eligible for full or conditional admission (depending on previous academic background) to the following master degree programs, without reapplication:

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