Business Analytics, Online, MS

Connecting to Success Wherever You Are

Our online MSBA program is a great option for:

• People who want to connect to Seattle’s global tech industries but aren’t quite ready to relocate.
• Working professionals who need a flexible class schedule while advancing or pivoting their careers.
• People who enjoy online learning best but still want to connect to a cohort.

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Holistic Development

The Seattle University Albers Online MS in Business Analytics challenges you to craft a reflective approach to the legal and ethical issues surrounding business uses of data and to excel in stakeholder communications and management.

Our progressive program blends holistic student support and rigorous education in the Jesuit and Catholic tradition with impressive results.

Our university mission includes educating the whole person and creating leaders for a just and humane world. This is the ultimate standard against which we measure our results and which will guide your success.

Real-World Data Translation Challenges

Developing an approach to data analysis that focuses on influencing business outcomes is a core business analytics skill. To help you develop that skill, each course in our Online MSBA curriculum includes a data translation challenge.

With each challenge based on real-world, messy data sets, you will:

• Consider a data-driven business problem.
• Analyze the data using computational tools.
• Communicate your findings.

Your Albers Online MS in Business Analytics culminates with a capstone project, in which you will apply your data analytics learnings in the planning and execution of a real-life development project for an industry partner.

Course Highlight: OMSBA 5210-Data Wrangling, Visualization and Communication

This course covers the end-to-end realities of working with data: from acquiring and cleaning it to common-sense steps of handling and analyzing it, to communicating your results to others.

You will learn about common issues in communicating data analysis and about best practices for creating clear and immediately understandable data visualizations that focus on the central message about the data.

The course is designed to focus on skills that transfer across tools. It will also help you develop job-ready proficiency in using two widely used presentation tools: Tableau and the ggplot2 package in R. The program also covers the R Markdown document processing system for data communications.

From the foundation to the finish, our curriculum prepares you for success. See the MSBA course list.

Prepared for Success

High-Demand Careers with Albers Online MSBA

Job opportunities for business analysts continue to expand as the world becomes more digital and businesses attain data maturity. The highest demand projections, for data scientists and market research analysts, are at 22% through 2030. That’s more than twice the rate of overall job growth. Other roles are growing at 1.4 times the overall rate.^{1, 2, 3}

Leading business analytics careers include:

• Management Analyst/Consultant
• Business Intelligence Analyst
• Market Research Analyst
• Predictive Analytics Specialist
• Big Data Analytics Specialist
• Data Analyst/Scientist
• Program and Marketing Manager

High-Earning Careers with Albers Online MSBA

With an Albers Online MS in Business Analytics degree, you can prosper in virtually any sector that interests you. Here are average salaries for some highly paid roles:

• Data Scientist: $131,4901¹
  #6 in 100 Best Jobs from U.S.⁴
• Management Analyst: $93,0003³
  #17 in 100 Best Jobs from U.S. News⁵
• Marketing Manager: $133,3806⁶
  #1 in Best Sales and Marketing Jobs from U.S.⁷

Sources

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2. Retrieved on May 16, 2022, from bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/market-research-analysts.htm
3. Retrieved on May 16, 2022, from bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/management-analysts.htm
4. Retrieved on May 16, 2022, from money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/data-scientist
5. Retrieved on May 16, 2022, from money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/management-analyst
6. Retrieved on May 16, 2022, from bls.gov/ooh/management/advertising-promotions-and-marketing-managers.htm
7. Retrieved on May 16, 2022, from money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/marketing-manager