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University of Montana Catalog 2024-2025

Business Analytics M.S.

General Graduate Program Requirements

Graduate School policies and standards can be found on the Graduate School Policies page

The minimum GPA for any graduate program is 3.0. Individual programs may require more than a 3.0 to remain in good standing. 

The minimum grade for a course to be accepted toward any requirement is C. Individual programs may require higher grades for specific courses.

MASTER OF SCIENCE - BUSINESS ANALYTICS

  • The Masters of Business Analytics (MSBA) is a 32 credit program offered through flexible delivery, either on campus or off campus via Zoom.
  • All coursework focuses on providing experience with both hard technical skills and soft business skills.
  • The core curriculum includes the study of business intelligence, big data analytics, business statistics, statistical computing, data mining and management, and communicating insights based on data analysis and associated decision-making.

Course Requirements

Complete all of the following courses:
BGEN 505Graduate Fundamentals of Business3
BGEN 516Applied Business Statistics3
BGEN 526Graduate Introduction to Business Analytics3
BGEN 631Introduction to SQL1
BGEN 632Graduate Introduction to Python2
BMIS 601Business Intelligence3
BMIS 625Mining of Text & Unstructured Data2
BMKT 670Applied Data Analytics3
BMKT 673Advanced Applied Modeling3
BMKT 680Big Data and Innovation2
BMKT 689MSBA Capstone Prep1
BMKT 699Capstone3
MBA 694Seminar (Telling Stories with Data)3
Total Hours32

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