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Without a doubt, the business analytics master’s is the belle of the specialty degree ball. Roughly a third of the top 100 business schools have rolled out these programs, in response to fast-rising demand for workers trained to wrangle and analyze the big data streams that are getting bigger by the second. For companies of virtually any size in any industry, the mining and processing of big data is a do-or-die proposition.
“Business analytics is determining the winners and losers in most industries,” Kenneth Gilbert, an emeritus prof at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Haslam College of Business, told Forbes. “Ford cites analytics as playing a major role in its turnaround. Many companies such as Amazon, Google and Capital One have built their entire business model around analytics. Companies that see this are looking for the talent needed to integrate business analytics into their business strategy.”
Now, there’s no need to go as ga-ga over the data science revolution as did the Harvard Business Review, which titled an article on business analytics “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” The HBR article highlighted the fact that the field is growing faster than the output of trained data scientists. “Much of the current enthusiasm for big data focuses on technologies that make taming it possible, including Hadoop (the most widely used framework for distributed file system processing) and related open-source tools, cloud computing, and data visualization,” the article says. “While those are important breakthroughs, at least as important are the people with the skill set (and the mind-set) to put them to good use. On this front, demand has raced ahead of supply. Indeed, the shortage of data scientists is becoming a serious constraint in some sectors.”
Here’s a great list to start exploring a master’s in business analytics. For the first time, we’re compiled a list of the programs at Poets&Quants‘ Top 100 business schools, ranked by their full-time MBA programs. The halo effect from a flagship program brings prestige to the business school brand that covers all their other business offerings.
Business Analytics Master’s At 100 Top Schools
Rank | School | Program | Duration | Program Tuition |
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7 | MIT Sloan School of Management | Business Analytics | 1 year | $75,000 |
11 | Duke University Fuqua School of Business | Business Analytics | 10 months | $65,000 |
15 | University of California at Los Angeles Anderson | Business Analytics | 13 months | $62,579 |
16 | NYU Stern School of Business | Business Analytics (part-time) | 1 year | $68,750 |
18 | University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business | Business Analytics | <1 year | In-state: $36,000; out-of-state: $44,000 |
20 | Emory University Goizueta Business School | Business Analytics | 10 months | $57,000 |
21 | Indiana University Kelley School of Business | Business Analytics (online) | 18 months (or up to five years) | $38,100 |
24 | Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business | Business Analytics | 1 year | $57,100 |
25 | Michigan State Broad College of Business | Business Analytics |
1 year |
In-state: $36,000; out-of-state: $39,000 |
26 | USC Marshall School of Business |
Business Analytics |
1 year (also part-time) | $51,300 |
29 | University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management | Business Analytics (also part-time version) | 1 year (part-time: 3 years) | In-state: $41,265; out-of-state: $57,015 (Part-time: in-state: $54,000; out-of-state: $68,175 |
30 | Washington University Olin Business School | Customer Analytics | 18 months | $72,930 |
34 | Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business | Analytics |
1 year |
In-state: $36,000; out-of-state: $49,000 |
35 | University of Maryland Smith School of Business | Marketing Analytics | 9 months | In-state: $46,140; out-of-state $55,590 |
36 | Arizona State Carey School of Business | Business Analytics (also online version) | 9 months (online: 16 months) | In-state: $31,600; out-of-state: $47,800; international: $48,000 (online: $43,500) |
37 | University of Iowa Tippie College of Business |
Business Analytics |
1-2 years | $19,950 |
38 | University of Rochester Simon Business School | Marketing Analytics (also part-time) | 9-10 months (part-time: avg. 3 1/2 years) | $63,000 (part-time: $62,820) |
38 | University of Rochester Simon Business School | Business Analytics (also part-time) | 10 months or 17 months (internship track); (part-time: avg. 3 1/2 years) | $63,000 (part-time: $71,545) |
39 | Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business |
Business Analytics |
9 months | $41,850 |
44 | Purdue University Krannert School of Management | Business Analytics and Information Management | 11 months | In-state: $29,000; out-of-state: $46,000 |
49 | George Washington University School of Business |
Business Analytics |
1 year (part-time: 20 months) | $50,985 |
50 | Temple University Fox School of Business |
Business Analytics |
1 year (full-time); up to 3 years (part-time) | In-state: $32,460; out-of-state $45,330 |
52 | University of Texas-Dallas Jindal SOM |
Business Analytics |
18 or 24 months | In-state: 18 months: $23,967; 24 months: $26,760; out-of-state: 18 months: $45,444; 24 months: $48,452 |
54 | College of William & Mary Mason School of Business |
Business Analytics |
1 year |
In-state: $33,000 (plus $6,000 fees); out-of-state: $39,000 (plus $6,000 fees) |
61 | U.C. San Diego Rady SOM |
Business Analytics |
1 year |
$52,900 |
66 | University of Miami School of Business Administration |
Business Analytics |
10 months |
$55,500 |
68 | Louisiana State Ourso College of Business | Analytics | 1 year | In-state: $12,463; out-of-state: $34,901 |
70 | University of Colorado Leeds School of Business |
Business Analytics |
1 year | $35,446 |
71 | University of Tennessee-Knoxville Haslam College of Business |
Business Analytics |
3 semesters | In-state: $21,903; out-of-state: $49,575 |
72 | Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead SOM |
Business Analytics |
11 months | $47,500 |
73 | University of Connecticut Storrs School of Business | Business Analytics & Project Management (also part-time) | 1 1/2 years | $28,875 |
77 | University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business |
Business Analytics |
9-12 months | In-state: $20,958; out-of-state: $28,796 (12 months: additional $890-$3,560) |
78 | American University Kogod School of Business | Analytics (also part-time) | 1-2 years | $50,358 |
82 | Iowa State College of Business | Business Analytics (online) | 21 months | $16,440 |
99 | Fordham University Gabelli School of Business |
Business Analytics |
12-16 months | $40,560 |
100 | Texas Tech Rawls College of Business | Data Science | 1 year | $16,000 |
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