BI&A Graduate Certificate

This certificate is designed: (1) for students wishing to build careers around the organizational need to manage the explosion of data from hand-held devices, corporate transactions and social media and other sources and (2) for working professionals interested in understanding and exploiting data analytic skills. A selection from a menu of courses allows the certificate to satisfy the needs of both groups of students.

All graduate certificate students will normally take:

• MIS 636 Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence
• MIS 637 Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Practitioners will normally take 2 of the following 3 courses:

• BIA 652 Multivariate Data AnalyticsBIA 658 Social Network Analytics
• SOC 653 Introduction to Text Mining and Statistical Natural Language Processing

People intending to go on to the BI&A MS Degree will normally take 2 of the following 3 courses:

• BIA 652 Multivariate Data Analytics
• BIA 656 Statistical Learning and Analytics
• BIA 660 Web Analytics