University of Portland Bulletin 2017-2018

Business Analytics Certificate


Business Analytics Certificate

The Business Analytics Certificate provides students with a distance-learning option for the post-graduate and post-baccalaureate business certificate programs in Business Analytics.  Students will take the following Operations and Technology Management (OTM) courses either online or in-person or a combination of both. Upon completing the Business Analytics Certificate program, students should be able to understand and apply: the fundamentals of modeling, optimization, and simulation and use appropriate analytical methods for decision-making under uncertainty, risk, and constraints; organize organizational data science assets and use databases to create structure and solutions; and the fundamentals of data visualization and predictive models and use appropriate descriptive and predictive data science analytics for organizational decision-making and problem solving.

 

Admission Requirements

To be admitted to this program, students must hold a bachelor’s or graduate business degree from an AACSB accredited institution, and submit the following application components:

  1. Current resume
  2. Official transcripts (from all previously attended academic institutions)
  3. Online application form

 

Business Analytics

BUS 519Business Analytics

3

BUS 543Decision Modeling

3

BUS 552Optimization

3

BUS 553R Programming and Simulation

3