Business Analytics (M.B.A.)
Businesses run on analytics. Our specialized M.B.A. Business Analytics program is your pathway to business analytics jobs and career advancement in a rapidly growing field.
Become a Leader in Strategic, Data-Driven Management with Illinois Tech’s M.B.A. Business Analytics
Data and analytics are at the center of how successful businesses across industries thrive. The M.B.A. Business Analytics program at Illinois Tech is focused on building high-level expertise in strategic management and leading-edge skills in analytics. You’ll be ready to take charge as a forward-thinking manager who has the business savvy, innovation mindset, and knowledge of how to leverage analytics to solve problems, implement change, and create new business opportunities in competitive global markets.
Program Overview
This master’s program in business analytics combines fundamental analytics training with a core M.B.A. curriculum that emphasizes technology and innovation. Develop your “big picture” business acumen, from leadership and decision-making to finance, marketing, and operations. Master essential analytical and quantitative skills in statistics, database management, predictive modeling, and machine learning that will enable you to optimize operational efficiency, grow new products and markets, and increase profits.
Our in-person courses are taught in the heart of Chicago’s global business center by faculty with extensive industry experience. Work while earning your M.B.A. Business Analytics, with courses on weekday evenings (6–8 p.m.) and Saturdays at our downtown campus, near Union Station and Ogilvie Transportation Center.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the M.B.A. Business Analytics program have the in-demand analytical and leadership skills for career advancement in businesses and organizations in all types of industries in business analytics jobs such as:
- Business analytics manager
- Analytics director
- Management analyst
Learn more in our blog posts on What is Business Analytics? and Choosing Your Career Path in Analytics.
Check out some of our students’ favorite M.B.A. Business Analytics courses:
BUS 510 Strategic Management
Developing great strategies and executing them flawlessly are keys to driving your organization’s rise to the top in a competitive global business environment, as well as fueling your own career success. This course focuses on the rigorous business process that combines analysis, strategy, and performance to guide you in developing and executing highly effective strategies. This course includes a strong experiential learning component.
MBA 505 Microeconomics and Game Theory
Economics is a way of thinking about problems, issues, and decisions that managers face in each of the functional areas of their organization. This course stresses the importance of incentives in human decision making and the consideration of costs and benefits. You’ll learn about a wide range of concepts—such as market structure, supply and demand models, trade, competition, and pricing—that shape the business environments in which organizations operate.
MAX 522 Predictive Analytics
Companies capture and analyze large amounts of data about every aspect of their operations. From predicting customer behavior to determining the optimal maintenance schedule to keep the production line humming, predictive analytics is the key to transforming data into actionable business information. In MAX 522 you’ll learn skills for designing and retrieving information from databases, master leading data mining tools, and gain experience using Python to analyze datasets and make predictions utilizing machine-learning algorithms. Hands-on assignments and a group project mimic the types of projects you would do for an industry job.
You must complete the Illinois Tech graduate application, regardless of which graduate program you wish to pursue. Visit our admission website to learn more about what information and documents you need to apply.
Scholarships and Aid
All Stuart School of Business graduate students are automatically reviewed for merit-based scholarship awards at the time of admission to Illinois Tech. Learn more about merit-based and need-based financial aid awards and tuition and fees.
Tuition and Fees
Learn more about the university’s general tuition and fees, visit the Student Accounting website. Visit the Stuart School of Business page for more details.
Choosing Your Career Path in Analytics
Leveraging big data and analytics is a cornerstone for successful businesses and organizations of all types. As a result, skilled analytics professionals are in high demand. Explore a variety of career options in analytics in our blog post.
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For any questions about Stuart School of Business degree programs or the application and enrollment process, contact our Director of Student Recruitment Claire Johnson.