Business Analytics Master's At 100 Top B-Schools

The Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota advanced in U.S. News’ ranking

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
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