Master of Science (MSc) in Business Analytics

This programme welcomes a wide audience of learners from cognate backgrounds.. The MSc in Business Analytics (Level 9, 90 ECTS) programme aims to provide learners with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to critically analyse, evaluate and implement big data concepts and techniques in order to generate valuable business insights. These insights will inform strategic business decisions designed to increase productivity, profitability and an organisation’s value and market share. It has been designed with an integrated delivery from end‐to‐end covering a wide range of business strategy, analytics and technology topics whilst providing a focus on application and the regulation required in this area. The programme focuses on theoretical and contextual knowledge in core areas such as statistics, decision theory, business strategy and finance while also offering applied practical skills in contemporary topics such as data analytics, visualisation, modelling, simulation and forecasting, project management, big data and business application development. Learners who complete the full Master of Science programme (including the 25 ECTS capstone Applied Research Project or Dissertation module) will also develop and enhance their research capability through critical enquiry and detailed analytical problem-solving.

This programme is aimed at learners with a Level 8 honours bachelor’s primary undergraduate degree in a cognate area (e.g. computer science, IT, science, mathematics, statistics, finance, economics, business (including quantitative methods), engineering, maths and management information systems), who wish to specialise in the field of business analytics with a view to entering industry, or those with a Level 8 honours bachelor’s primary undergraduate degree in a non-cognate area plus three to five years’ experience of business analytics and who require a qualification in this area in order to progress professionally. These will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Learners will need to have achieved a minimum second class second division award (2.2 classification) in their honours Bachelor’s Level 8 degree.