Masters in MBA - Analytics in USA

The global insurance industry is one of the world’s most essential and prosperous sectors—and it is currently undergoing dramatic changes requiring even more sophisticated analytics and insights.

Northeastern University’s Masters of Professional Studies in Insurance Analytics and Management program addresses the mounting need for analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in the insurance industry. The workforce needs to be proficient in advanced technologies and possess the social and emotional skills to bridge the gap between AI and machine learning and the human client.

Our program was developed with guidance and input from active insurance professionals, focusing on the skills and competencies companies are looking for right now. This unique, modern approach bridges the gap between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human clients. By mastering cutting-edge applications, humanics, data, and tech, you’ll carve a path into this global industry and have the tools and insights to thrive and advance your career.

Employers need skilled individuals who can translate big data into recommendations for profitable actions. The Master of Science in Business Analytics degree program provides students with the practical and theoretical knowledge needed to pursue careers involving a wide variety of data science, data engineering and data analytics roles within a number of business domains.

Taught by top-tier faculty at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, this STEM-designated degree program consists of both core courses and a set of electives organized into various tracks: Accounting Analytics, Cybersecurity Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science, Decisions and Operations Analytics, Financial Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Social Media Analytics and Enterprise Systems Analytics.

The Master of Science in Management Information Systems program, is available to those who have completed an undergraduate degree in business or a closely related field. The program offers admission in the fall only. Management information systems is the application of computer related technology to managerial programs. There is of course a heavy technical component in the coursework, but the program also provides students with the broad perspective needed to advance in their managerial careers.

There is an exploding need for professionals in every field who can analyze and manage data to make effective business decisions. Our Lubin MBA in Business Analytics gives you the technical edge for a satisfying analytical career in data analytics, financial engineering, risk management, market research, or management consulting.

Offered through Saint Louis University's School for Professional Studies, the Master of Science in Analytics curriculum will teach you to design and implement analytics projects to solve complex organizational problems through statistical and analytical techniques for analyzing datasets of various sizes. Through your coursework, you'll gain skills in project management, decision making, and learn how to communicate the intricacies of complex data more effectively. 

Along the way, you’ll learn from a network of diverse peers from around the world, merging technology with human and organizational structures as you engage in knowledge discovery, management, and dissemination of industry-critical knowledge. You can also earn a graduate certificate that complements a master’s degree, often without taking additional credits, allowing you to tailor the program to your specific interests.

As part of the School for Professional Studies, this 33-credit master's program offers data-driven professionals like you a flexible option to meet your personal career goals. With multiple start terms, you can begin the master's program in fall, spring or summer. All courses are offered in online and hybrid formats in eight-week terms, making advanced education more accessible for working professionals. You will join a community of academics and practitioners from around the world and from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, providing the opportunity to learn from a network of peers.

This 30 credit program is designed to enable students to learn how to use data-driven approaches to solve business challenges in the era of big data. Business analytics is at the intersection of statistics, operations research, and computer science. This program offers a broad yet rigorous curriculum in data science (statistics, data mining, computer language, stochastic modeling, econometrics), applied analytics (finance, marketing, operations), and management science (optimization, simulation).  The curriculum provides the skills, insight, and capability to transform data into insightful information that will lead to better results, and enables our graduates to understand the role of evidence-based data in decision-making and how to transform data into a powerful and predictive strategic asset that will ultimately drive optimal results. Students learn about the use of analytics in particular functional areas, such as, finance, marketing or operations, as well as, acquiring general knowledge of data analytics and business computing.

The MBA focuses on examining an organization from a functional strategic approach. This approach includes emphasis on management, marketing, finance, accounting, and economic principles in both the domestic and international marketplaces. MBA students can become immersed in a concentration that best fits their goals. Concentrations are offered in accounting, health care management, human resources, management and marketing.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Advanced Knowledge in Business - Students will demonstrate advanced knowledge in the functional areas of business.

2. Strategic Analysis - Students will be able to analyze business situations, identify external opportunities and threats with a view toward proposing comprehensive strategic recommendations.

3. Complex Problem Solving - Students will demonstrate complex problem solving skills.

4. Strategic-Level Ethical Reasoning - Students will be able to identify and evaluate strategic-level ethical dilemmas and apply ethical decision-making techniques to resolve them.

5. Strategic Use of Information Technology - Students will be able to use information technology as a tool for business strategy.

6. Strategic Communications - Students will be able to communicate effectively in a business setting.

The Master of Science in Technology Management (MSTM) degree is designed to enable technology professionals to move up in their careers by attaining higher management and leadership positions. The curriculum focuses on learning creative problem-solving and management principles for technology-driven industries and businesses. Instruction in advanced technology, management and leadership concepts that are geared toward the needs of our rapidly changing technological global economy are provided in the program. Professionals learn advanced problem-solving skills and develop technological decision-making capabilities through analytical thinking, applied research, technology development and productivity improvement.

The STEM-designated Master of Science in Business Analytics and Risk Management (BARM) full-time program equips managers to improve decision making processes based on a rigorous treatment of data and information using the management of risk as an underlying guide and framework. This program is designed to teach ways to: quantify multiple dimensions of hard business problems; analyze the structure and data related to those problems; and create rigorous approaches based on that analysis to guide business decisions. In each setting elements of Data Science, Decision Modeling, and Business Analysis are synthesized to facilitate management of both opportunities and risks. Coursework provides exposure to both a variety of analytical tools and aspects of risk management which enable managers to make better decisions for themselves and their organizations.

The Master of Science in Business Information Technology (MSBIT) prepares students for work related to applying information technology in organizations. Jointly offered by the College of Computing & Informatics and the LeBow College of Business, the program is thoroughly interdisciplinary. It connects business and information technology perspectives so that students understand information technology in an organizational context. Specifically, students completing the program will understand how information technology is managed in an organizational environment, how it helps to solve organizational problems, and how it can be used to transform an organization.

The program is designed for students who have relevant work experience and either a technical or a business background. Courses provide technology and business knowledge with a practical emphasis. To complement required foundations in information technology and management, students can choose to focus on two of the following areas: organizational security, information technology and execution, information systems development, or digital transformation.

Technology now touches every part of our lives. The amount of data available in the business world and financial markets is exploding. Businesses, government, consumers, investors, policymakers and others face major challenges as well as opportunities to adapt to the results of the fast-moving flow of information. The UCLA Anderson Master of Science in Business Analytics is a 15 month on-campus program that will give you the tools to become a leader in this rapidly evolving and in-demand field.

Southern Utah University's Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program at SUU trains students to use data, statistical analysis, and mathematical models to solve business problems, improve business processes, and make better business decisions. The program aims to achieve the optimal balance between technical expertise and real-world applications, to produce graduates who can apply appropriate methodologies in practical ways.

The Master of Business Administration program is a 30 credit hour program that provides students broad knowledge of business in order to become effective in management positions.

The objective of this program is to:

1. Enhance students the ability in communicating at a professional level in oral presentation and in writing
2. Work effectively with others and leading in organizational situations.
3. Identify how globalization affects organizations and their environment
4. Recognize the importance of ethical decisions making
5. Integrate analytical and problem solving skills with concepts and theories from all functional areas of business using appropriate analytical decision making technologies.

The Master of Science in Business Information Systems program will prepare students with the skills needed to work in the information technology industry. The program is designed as a bridge between business and technology and will be fully geared towards practice with learning experiences grounded in real world contexts. Students will not only learn analytical skills and use software tools that are currently popular in the industry, to find solutions to business problems that are commonly encountered in practice, but also learn how to manage an IT project and see it through to successful completion. As opposed to a pure computer science program, this program caters to the burgeoning need for information systems professionals who understand the business aspects of technology. Graduates of the program will be thoroughly prepared to hit the ground running in the information technology industry.

The Master of Science (MS) in Business Analytics prepares students to master and apply contemporary analytics approaches to identify and address business problems and opportunities. It can be completed in residence or online. The course work includes foundations in managing, analyzing, and conveying patterns and implications of business data, followed by an array of analytics elective courses that enable students to deepen their skills and understanding in business application areas such as finance, accountancy, and marketing, among others. This is an intensive program for those interested in making decisions and innovating through the use of business analytics approaches.

The Master of Science in Business Analytics program is an intensive experience that develops well-trained business analysts armed with the skills necessary to understand, manage and make use of big data in a business context. Over the course of 10 months, students learn how to turn abstract data into meaningful information with which to predict consumer behavior and forecast revenue and expenses for virtually any business model and any industry sector.

The Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) is an accelerated, cohort-based 13-month, three-semester program. Students work both in teams and independently in completing the coursework.

Propel your career as a data scientist by learning to analyze raw data, transform it into valuable insights, and use those insights to better inform business decisions. A market-driven and customizable curriculum allows you to pursue the path that’s right for your professional development plan. Courses to complete this concentration are available on campus only. 

The digital revolution empowered by the internet and computer technology in business and individual life during the last several decades has generated unimaginable amounts of data in the form of digital records stored in databases and file servers. The volume, velocity, and variety of these data have produced a new set of problems and challenges for businesses and organizations in their pursuit of competitiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency. These problems and challenges also have created unprecedented opportunities for businesses and organizations to discover, model, understand, and serve their customers and partners in ways never imagined and to supply details never possible before. Businesses and organizations that are able to master this volume of data will have a tremendous competitive advantage over their competition in the marketplace.