University of Portland Bulletin 2024-2025

Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Analytics

The business analytics major is designed to equip students with skills and knowledge to leverage advanced analytical techniques, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to drive data and model-driven decision-making and optimize business processes within organizations. This major combines principles from business analytics, operations management, programming, and data science to prepare students for careers in data-driven roles across various industries.

UP Core Requirements — 40 credit hours

All University of Portland students progress through a set of shared course options as part of the University’s liberal arts Core Curriculum. This curriculum offers a foundation of multiple lenses to address enduring questions of human concern, integrating the liberal arts, the University mission, and the knowledge, skills, and values needed in a diverse society and in the workplace.

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Two of the three core requirements in the Science & Problem Solving Habit are satisfied by ECN 120 and the mathematics requirements within the major.

BUS 250 and BUS 456 are the designated Writing in the Discipline courses for the B.B.A. in Business Analytics.

Business Requirements — 57 credit hours

Non-Business Courses - 12 credit hours

CST 107Public Speaking for Change

3

ENG 107College Writing

3

MTH 121Calculus for Business and Social Science

3

MTH 161Elementary Statistics

3

P4 Professional Development Requirements - 3 credit hours

BUS 202Professional Development

1

BUS 302Internship Preparation

1

BUS 397Professional Development Internship

1

Global Acumen Requirements - 4 credit hours

BUS 360Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior and Ethics

3

BUS 496Meaningful International Experience

1

Business Foundation Lower Division - 31 credit hours

BUS 100Introduction to Leadership Skills

3

BUS 101Software Applications Workshop

1

BUS 104Math for Business and Analytics I

2

ECN 120Principles of Macroeconomics

3

ECN 121Principles of Microeconomics

3

BUS 200Principles of Marketing

3

BUS 204Math for Business and Analytics II

1

BUS 205Foundations of Finance

3

BUS 209Financial Accounting

3

BUS 210Managerial Accounting

3

BUS 250Legal and Social Responsibility in Business

3

BUS 255Introduction to Operations & Technology Management

3

Business Foundation Upper Division - 7 credit hours

BUS 304Math for Business Analytics III

1

BUS 355Decision Modeling and Analytics

3

BUS 364Innovation

3

Major Requirements — 27 credit hours

Required Courses — 15 credit hours

BUS 361Foundations of Operations Management

3

BUS 452Project Management

3

BUS 455Prescriptive Analytics

3

BUS 456Systems Analysis and Design

3

BUS 459Business Analytics

3

Coding Course - 3 credit hours

Select one course from the following:
BUS 449Python Programming for Business and Analytics

3

BUS 461R Programming for Business and Analytics

3

Approved Coding Course

3

Major Electives - 9 credit hours

Select three courses from the following:

BUS 356Database Management

3

BUS 449Python Programming for Business and Analytics

3

BUS 453Supply Chain Analytics

3

BUS 461R Programming for Business and Analytics

3

BUS 463Introduction to Data Science

3

BUS 478Applied Machine Learning for Business

3

BUS 481Simulation for Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics

3

Any additional credit hours required to complete a minimum of 120 credit hours


Total Credit Hours: 120