Business Analytics MS

About the Program

The MS in Business Analytics degree program is designed to enable graduates to be effective translators by using data and models to recognize opportunities and improve organizational decision-making. Data-driven decision-making has been shown to have large positive effects on outcomes of interest to organizations of all types.

The Business Analytics MS leverages the ever-increasing importance of data as a strategic asset to organizations. Students enhance their analytic toolkit with a holistic view of how to improve decision-making through analytics. The degree program is designed to allow students to acquire advanced skills and techniques that can be applied to discipline-specific and more general business problems. Graduates are prepared to meet the growing demand for talent in the areas of managing, analyzing, predicting and discovering insights from the complex data available to modern corporations. They know how to translate data into decisions and decisions into profits.

Time Limit for Degree Completion: 6 years

Campus Location: Main, Center City, Online

Full-Time/Part-Time Status: The degree program can be completed on a full- or part-time basis.

Affiliation(s): Research interests of Fox faculty are supported by numerous centers and institutes throughout the Fox School and Temple University.

Areas of Specialization: Optional concentrations are offered in:

Finance
Marketing
Supply Chain Management

Job Prospects: The Fox Center for Student Professional Development (CSPD) provides students with career coaching and professional development resources that support the job search. Graduates are hired into such positions as:

Big Data Analytics Specialist
Data Analyst
Data Scientist
Management Analyst/Consultant
Manager of Services or Manufacturing Operations
Market Research Analyst
Project Manager
Research Analyst
Supply Chain Manager

Non-Matriculated Student Policy: This program requires the student to be matriculated in the degree program or graduate certificate program.

Financing Opportunities: Citizens and permanent residents of the United States are considered domestic students and are typically eligible for federal student loans and alternative loans through private lenders. The Fox School grants 5% tuition scholarships to alumni who are admitted to the program. Scholarship funds are limited and available based on merit.

Admission Requirements and Deadlines

Application Deadline:

Fall:

December 15 – Early Admissions Deadline
March 1 – Scholarship Deadline and International Deadline
June 30 – Final Deadline

Applications are reviewed as they are received and can sometimes be considered after the deadline.

APPLY ONLINE to this Fox graduate program.

Letters of Reference:
Number Required: 1

From Whom: Professional references from an immediate supervisor, current or past, are preferred. Academic references are acceptable.

Bachelor's Degree in Discipline/Related Discipline: The equivalent of a four-year U.S. baccalaureate degree from an accredited university or college is required. For three-year degrees, mark sheets must be evaluated by WES or another NACES organization.

Statement of Goals: Essay prompts can be found in the online application portal.

Standardized Test Scores:
GRE/GMAT: Required. Scores for the GRE typically fall within the following percentile ranges: 50 to 99 Verbal; 80 to 99 Quantitative.

Applicants who earned their baccalaureate degree from an institution where the language of instruction was other than English, with the exception of those who subsequently earned a master’s degree in a country where the language of instruction is English, must report scores for a standardized test of English that meet these minimums:

TOEFL iBT: 90
IELTS Academic: 7.0
Duolingo: 110
PTE Academic: 68

Resume: Current resume or CV is required.

Transfer Credit: Upper-level graduate credits from an AACSB-accredited graduate business program, but not previously applied to a conferred degree, may be transferred into the MS program. The credits must be part of the required degree program at Temple University. To be transferred, the grade must be a "B" or better. The Admissions Committee makes recommendations for transferring credits to the department chair. The maximum number of credits a student may transfer is 6.

Program Requirements

General Program Requirements:
Number of Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 30

Required Courses:

Course List
Code	Title	Credit Hours
Core Courses
BA 5687	Advanced Professional Development Strategies ¹	0
STAT 5001	Quantitative Methods for Business	3
STAT 5602	Visualization: The Art of Numbers and the Psychology of Persuasion	3
STAT 5603	Statistical Learning and Data Mining	3
STAT 5605	Decision Models: From Data to Decisions	3
STAT 5606	Data: Care, Feeding, and Cleaning in Python	3
STAT 5607	Advanced Business Analytics	3
Concentration Courses ²		9
Capstone Course
Select one from the following:		3
BA 5651	Business Analytics Capstone
BA 5685	Internship or Externship in Business ³
STAT 5651	Capstone in Analytics
Total Credit Hours		30

BA 5687 may be waived based on prior academic or professional preparation. Students should consult with the Academic Director.

Three courses are taken. Note that in all cases, students are responsible for completing prerequisites for concentration courses. Approved courses are delineated by concentration in the grids below.

Permission is required from the Academic Director to enroll in BA 5685.

MS with No Concentration

Course List
Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select three from the following: ¹		9
BA 5685	Internship or Externship in Business
MKTG 5103	Marketing Research: Techniques and Application
MKTG 5111	Customer Data Analytics
MSOM 5107	Lean, Six Sigma, and the Science of Improvement
MSOM 5108	Project Management
STAT 5170	Special Topics
STAT 5182	Independent Study
STAT 5190	Special Topics - Stat
STAT 5604	Experiments: Knowledge by Design
STAT 8109	Applied Statistics and Data Science
STAT 8111	Survey Techniques for Business Applications
STAT 8116	Categorical Data Analysis
STAT 8122	Advanced SAS Programming
Total Credit Hours		9

Alternate courses may be taken with permission from the Academic Director.

MS with Optional Concentration in Finance

Course List
Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select three from the following:		9
FIN 5001	Financial Analysis and Strategy
FIN 5104	Advanced Corporate Finance
FIN 5111	Corporate Valuation
FIN 5115	Financial Modeling for Investments and Corporate Finance
Total Credit Hours		9

MS with Optional Concentration in Marketing

Course List
Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select three from the following:		9
MKTG 5103	Marketing Research: Techniques and Application
MKTG 5111	Customer Data Analytics
MKTG 5617	Advanced Modalities
MKTG 5618	Quantitative Pricing and Revenue Analytics
Total Credit Hours		9

MS with Optional Concentration in Supply Chain Management

Course List
Code	Title	Credit Hours
Select three from the following:		9
MSOM 5001	Operations Management
MSOM 5107	Lean, Six Sigma, and the Science of Improvement
MSOM 5108	Project Management
SCM 5101	Supply Chain Analytics
Total Credit Hours		9

Culminating Events:
Capstone Course:
All students in the Business Analytics MS program participate in a capstone experience that is designed to integrate “real world” problems into the curriculum. In general, a sponsoring corporation provides a problem and real data, and students divide into teams to work on the problem. At the end of the term, the top several groups as judged by professors present to the program's advisory board and other corporate judges.