The amount of data flowing from, to, and through enterprises of all sorts is enormous, and growing rapidly—more rapidly than the capabilities of organizations to use it. Successful enterprises are those that make effective use of the abundance of data to which they have access: to make better predictions, better decisions, and form better strategies. Business analytics—which encompasses a variety of techniques to extract useful information from different sources of data—is being embraced at an increasing rate by organizations that need to gain actionable and forward-looking insight from their data. The minor in business analytics will provide students with the cutting-edge knowledge and skills they need to use and gather data to identify, understand, and deliver insights that internal and external clients find vital to organizational success.

Policies

At least eight credits must be unique to the minor and not applied toward any other major, minor, or concentration. Students must achieve a grade of C or better in each course that is applied toward the minor. 

For policies governing all minors, see AP.5.3.4 Minors. The Costello College of Business residency requirement for this minor supersedes the university requirement: at least nine credits must be earned at Mason.

Banner Code: ABUS

Minor Requirements

Total credits: 15

Required Course

MIS 431Data Mining for Business Applications (Mason Core)3
Total Credits3

Electives

Select four courses from the following:12
ACCT 361
Accounting Analytics
ACCT 465
Advanced Accounting Analytics
FNAN 430
Empirical Methods in Finance
FNAN 436
Probability Methods for Finance
MIS 310
Database Management Systems
MIS 430
Data Warehousing
MIS 432
Advanced Data Mining
MIS 433
Programming for Analytics
MKTG 351
Marketing Research
MKTG 352
Marketing Analytics
OSCM 352
Management Science
OSCM 452
Business Forecasting
STAT 362
Introduction to Computer Statistical Packages
STAT 456
Applied Regression Analysis
Total Credits12