Business Analytics, Bachelor of Science

Purpose

Business Analytics is the combination of skills, technologies, applications, and processes used by organizations to gain data-driven insights that can be used for decision making across business functions including finance, marketing, and operations.  The program is designed to provide the statistical, analytical, technical and critical thinking skills required to be competitive in the modern business environment that increasingly utilizes large data sources to improve the quality of business decisions.

Program of Study

The Bachelor of Science degree program in Business Analytics provides course work from both the College of Business and the College of Technology.  Course offerings emphasize those analytic and critical thinking skills presently needed by business professionals.    With the constant development of new technologies there is a need to efficiently collect and store vast amounts of digital data.  Students in this program will develop the necessary skills to extract, analyze, organize and present data in a manner that is useful for organizational decision making.  The program will require students to develop a high level of quantitative and technological skills.  It utilizes the courses from the undergraduate business core, existing courses from the College of Technology, and specialized courses in the area of business analytics.

Cooperative Learning Experiences

Cooperative learning experiences (co-ops) are available in the Business Analytics program utilizing elective courses approved by the program chair.  Depending on the co-op experience available and the student’s course completion schedule, other courses such as BBM 301, Organizational Behavior may also be completed as a co-op.  Each co-op experience is expected to last for two consecutive semesters and earn the student six credits toward their 120 credit degree.

To be eligible for the co-op the student must have completed 60 credits and have a minimum GPA of 2.5.  The student must inform the Director of the Co-op program and the Business Analytics Program Chair one semester before they would like to begin a co-op assignment. 

Program Competencies

In addition to achieving the Wilmington University undergraduate graduation competencies given in the Academic Information section of the catalog, each graduating student will be able to:

1. Effectively evaluate and frame business problems and acquire knowledge and skills of statistical tools available to analyze business problems such as the Business Intelligence Concepts of Online Analytical Processing and data mining.
2. Utilize critical thinking strategies to evaluate problems, and solutions and make recommendations based on client needs utilizing appropriate analytical tools.
3. Demonstrate effective information literacy and communication with valid and reliable research as it relates to the field of business analytics.
4. Apply the ethical standards as required by professionals in the business analytics field.