Business Analytics

Every day more and more companies are leveraging the benefits of business analytics to improve customer service, enhance operational performance, identify new business markets and drive revenue growth. The industry is flourishing.

No longer the exclusive domain of IT professionals, the search for business and data analytics skills are appearing in job descriptions in industries such as healthcare, automotive, financial services, marketing, human resources, education and more. Employers agree, finding people who have the requisite blend of quantitative computing and business domain knowledge and skills for business analytics is a challenge.

Required Courses

• course Business Analytics (3)

• course Introduction to Data Science (3)
  or course Practical Computing for Data Analytics (3)

• course Statistical Methods for Business II (3)
  or course Introduction to Industrial and Systems Engineering (4)
  or course Introduction to Statistical Methods (4)
  or course Applied Probability and Statistics (4)

• Students are recommended to take both course and course. If students take both of these courses, one of them will be counted towards the elective. Students who have taken course or course and are under a previous catalog can count these as required courses for the BA Minor.

Elective Courses - Choose 2

• course Financial Economics (3)

• course Applied Numerical Methods: Matrix Methods (4)

• course Econometrics (3)

• course Financial Derivatives (3)

• course Operations Analytics (3)
  or course Operations Analytics (3)

• course Web Analytics (3)

• course  Introduction to Data Science (3)
  or course Practical Computing for Data Analytics (3)

• course Deep Learning and Text Analytics (3)

• course Special Topics in MIS (3)

  • with Minor Coordinator’s approval

• course Linear Algebra (4)

• course Management Science (3)

• course Forecasting (3)

• course Applied Linear Models I (4)

• course Time Series I (4)

Additional Requirements

A minimum grade of C must be earned in each course in the Business Analytics minor and in the prerequisites for each course.

Certain course or course Special Topics courses can count as a minor requirement with prior approval of the minor coordinator based on the topic.

Non-SBA students should contact the minor coordinator to determine the total number of courses required for the minor.

The minor in Business Analytics (BA) adds only 4 courses to the degree requirements for SBA students.

To earn this minor, and to take 3000 and 4000 level business classes, non-business students must meet with the minor coordinator and have an approved Minor Authorization Form detailing the courses and the prerequisites required for the given minor. Once approved for the minor, students must take all the remaining courses in the minor at Oakland University. Students must complete the prescribed courses for the minor with a grade of C or better in each course and the prerequisites for each course. Transfer students planning to earn a minor must earn at least nine credits toward the minor at Oakland University; at least 6 of these 9 credits must be in courses at the 3000 level or above.

Applicable Majors

All Majors can declare this Minor with the exception of the following Major(s): Management Information Systems, B.S., Concentration in Business Analytics.