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Aziza Larvet
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MSc in Business Analytics (Graduating year, 2019)
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‘I knew I wanted to work in consulting and this was the perfect degree to start my dream career.’
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Overview
Develop your understanding of business analytics and how it works internationally. You’ll graduate with the skills you need to start a career specialising in data and decision analysis.
This course is for graduates who want to pursue a career in business analytics.
Course details
How can companies use ‘big data’ to gain business insight? This course will teach you how to convert data into knowledge. Get hands-on practical experience using the latest business intelligence software and interpreting real data.
This course includes guest lectures from industry experts, and a unit co-delivered by a specialist from IBM.
In partnership with IBM, SAS and the Women in OR & Analytics Network.
Key benefits
-An MSc in Business Analytics gives you a range of career opportunities across different sectors
-Get practical experience in computer programming and the latest business analytics software
-The small, carefully-selected class sizes allows for plenty of individual interaction with academics, career advisors and industry experts
-Graduate equipped with the skills global employers want. Big data's importance to businesses is growing, and Bath's graduates are in high demand
-A practical dissertation will let you work on a real problem with a partner company
-Meetings with graduates, business challenges and careers fairs will give you valuable experience of the global job market
-Get the knowledge and skills to help prepare you to secure your dream job
Entry requirements
2:1 or above (or its international equivalent). Your degree can be in any discipline but you must have studied a subject with high quantitative content.
You will be better suited to this course if you have studied business or management, or studied a subject with high quantitative content, such as:
- mathematics/statistics
- computer science
- engineering
- physics
- a quantitative social science
For more information: https://www.bath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-2022/taught-postgraduate-courses/msc-business-analytics/#entry-requirements
Career outcomes
Bath's graduates have a great employment record. Most go on to careers in a range of areas, start their own business or begin a PhD.
Job functions of 2019-20 graduates
- 50% work in business/data analytics
- 17% work in product management
- 11% work in business/management
- 6% work in banking
- 6% work in consulting
- 6% work in marketing
Recruiters include Accenture, Deloitte, Trip.com Group, Cognisess, Tencent and Xinye Technology.
Data shows role functions of 2019-20 class in full-time employment three months after graduation. Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number.
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