Business Intelligence Certificate

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Program Description

This certificate program will educate students in the use of business intelligence concepts and techniques for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to inform managerial decisions. Specifically, it will equip them with a wide variety of tools, methodologies that will enable them to examine structured and unstructured data, collect data from internal systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries against that data and create reports, dashboards and data visualizations, simulate real world systems and evaluate what-if scenarios and determine appropriate improvement strategies. Then, through various applications the students learn to make the analytical results available to corporate decision-makers as well as operational managers and workers.

Admission Requirements

• GPA of a 3.0 or greater
• Undergraduate degree in business or related quantitative fields
• 2 years industry work experience
• Those with GRE/GMAT score (GMAT=[500,550], Equivalent GRE Score) above set threshold can apply for waiver of the required experience.
• Those with an undergrad GPA of 3.5 and above and coming from a business or quantitative field can apply for a waiver of the required experience.
• Those with a Masters degree earned from an accredited US university in a business or quantitative field with GPA 3.0 or more can apply for an experience waiver.
• International students may be required to take the GMAT/GRE and satisfy the university wide TOEFL requirement.