Business Analytics

Program Overview:

The need for business analytics in today’s fast-paced world necessitates that employees possess the skills, technologies, and practices for continuous exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight into what happened and why. A well-trained business analyst will use the insights to help drive change and business planning within organizations. You will learn how to describe, interpret, and inform business decisions in specific areas of data-driven business. You will improve your data literacy skills and develop an analytic mindset that will help you make strategic decisions based on data. The Business Analytics Ontario College Graduate Certificate program focuses on two of the four types of analytics used in business - Descriptive Analytics and Diagnostics Analytics. Using these two types of analytics, you will practice summarizing data findings to communicate what is currently going on in business and help stakeholders see what contributed to the outcome of your findings.

Admission Requirements:

• GPA: 60% or above

• IELTS: Overall 6.5 no band below than 6.0

• PTE: Overall 63 with no band below than 60

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Learning Outcomes:

1. Manipulate mined data sets to create actionable insights that meet an organizational need.

2. Recommend different systems architectures and data storage technologies to support data2. analytics.

3. Customize data models to manipulate data into actionable information that meets the needs of a specific business process.

4. Design and present data visualizations to communicate information to business stakeholders.

5. Apply business analytics and business intelligence tools to support evidence-based decision making.

Career Outlook:

There is a high demand for analysts to help businesses make decisions for future needs and help build services to meet those needs. This program provides you with the opportunity to analyze data and develop solutions with a variety of different business scenarios. Graduates will have the knowledge and skills required for career growth in such positions as a business analyst, data analyst, business systems analyst, financial business analyst, and business intelligence analyst in any business looking to stay competitive in today's market.

Program Intake: January, May & September