MBA Concentration in Business Analysis

Faculty Contact: Dr. Alok Srivastava (alok@gsu.edu)

• Learn the science and art of managing in the information age.
• Enhance any career path by equipping yourself with state of the art decision support skills.
• Position yourself early as future business executives who successfully reengineer corporations

Business Analysis (corporate term Business Analytics) is a set of tools, techniques, and methodologies that support the translation of data assets into "actionable" (useful for decision-making) information.

What does a business analyst do? She/he is uniquely suited for career in any business area that requires sophisticated analytical (and modeling) skills. Some traditional career paths include accounting analysis, marketing analysis, financial analysis, operations and systems analysis, production/manufacturing analysis or applications in other functional and strategic areas. The business analysis major equips one with sophisticated statistical/data mining, management science, modeling and operations research skills. These skills combined with functional expertise can lead to powerful specializations. The contextual topics include data warehousing, data mining, online analytical processing, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and customer relationship management.

Course Requirements

Foundation Course:

MBA 7020 Business Analysis Foundations (1.5) or equivalent.

Required Courses for Concentration and Major (nine semester hours)

This partially fulfills the Group D catalog requirements for the MBA.

MGS 8020 Business Intelligence (3)

MGS 8150 Business Modeling (3)

MGS 8040 Data Mining (3)

Elective Courses: Select additional three semester hours (one course) for a concentration and nine semester hours (three courses)

for a major from the following. This completes the catalog requirements for Group D courses and optional Group F (major) courses.

MGS 8030 Knowledge Management

MGS 8110 Applied Regression Analysis

MGS 8130 Problem Solving

MGS 8140 Management Science Modeling

MGS 8170 Statistical Modeling

MGS 8760 Quality Management

MK 8210 Marketing Intelligence

Some appropriate substitutions are allowed with prior approval of faculty advisor.

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